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@Kewpie saidhttps://www.livemint.com/sports/news/[WORD TOO LONG].html
An unverified report. You're just part of the media pile-on. Let's wait for the verification, shall we?
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French journalist Djaffar Ait Aoudia reportedly shared Khelif's medical report, drafted in June 2023 by expert endocrinologists Soumaya Fedala and Jacques Young.
The fresh media report claims that Khelif was born with “testicles” and a “micro-penis.” The report came months after Khelif clinched a gold medal in women's boxing at the Paris Olympics, which was held in July-August of this year.
According to Djaffar Ait Aoudia's report published in Lecorrespondant, the medical report of the Algerian boxer indicated “an absence of a uterus,” the presence of “gonads in the inguinal canals” (testicles in her abdomen), “a blind vagina” and a micro-penis in the form of “clitoral hypertrophy.”
The report was drafted in collaboration between the Kremlin-Bicêtre Hospital in Paris, France, and the Mohamed Lamine Debaghine Hospital in Algiers, Algeria. It also suggested that Imane Khelif was affected by 5-alpha deficiency.
The deficiency, which mainly affects males, impacts humans at the time of birth and influences the normal growth of a child's sexual organs. Due to the deficiency, male babies are incorrectly assigned female due to the presence of deformed genitalia.
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Which goes to show that inspecting external sex organs is not decisive for determining gender, and validates some people's claims they were mis-labeled at birth.
@moonbus saidI’m guessing that they’d never had a period in their lives? I wonder if they’d ever sought a medical assessment to look into this as most females and their mum’s would have requested?
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French journalist Djaffar Ait Aoudia reportedly shared Khelif's medical report, drafted in June 2023 by expert endocrinologists Soumaya Fedala and Jacques Young.
The fresh media report claim ...[text shortened]... decisive for determining gender, and validates some people's claims they were mis-labeled at birth.
@Drewnogal saidIt's a strange case indeed, how one could have overlooked such obvious clues as non-existent menstrual periods. One wonders too how the Olympic Committee could have overlooked such a case.
I’m guessing that they’d never had a period in their lives? I wonder if they’d ever sought a medical assessment to look into this as most females and their mum’s would have requested?
I recall when East German athletes competing in women's events were shown on tv and it was bloody obvious by looking at their physiques that something had been fudged. Below is a link to an article about the East German doping machine, whereby women were virilized by being given steroids (unbeknownst to the athletes):
https://ishof.org/the-east-german-doping-machine/
@moonbus saidAs a woman gets fit, or maybe what some might consider 'hyperfit', and loses fat, especially around the abdomen, sometimes the body compensates by foregoing the period, since being waifishly thin might endanger the baby should one get pregnant. This also might happen because of fat loss through other means, like addiction to methamphetamine. Steroid use might complicate this also.
It's a strange case indeed, how one could have overlooked such obvious clues as non-existent menstrual periods. One wonders too how the Olympic Committee could have overlooked such a case.
I recall when East German athletes competing in women's events were shown on tv and it was bloody obvious by looking at their physiques that something had been fudged. Below is a link to ...[text shortened]... g given steroids (unbeknownst to the athletes):
https://ishof.org/the-east-german-doping-machine/
@Suzianne saidThis could also be accounted for by not having a uterus or ovaries, which appears to be the case for the boxer on question.
As a woman gets fit, or maybe what some might consider 'hyperfit', and loses fat, especially around the abdomen, sometimes the body compensates by foregoing the period, since being waifishly thin might endanger the baby should one get pregnant. This also might happen because of fat loss through other means, like addiction to methamphetamine. Steroid use might complicate this also.
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