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Hi Kid: Are Boys in Girls Spaces?
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Are Boys Allowed in Girls Spaces?
Forty-six seconds.
Forty-six seconds in the ring was all it took for Olympic Italian boxer Angela Carini to decide she could not fight Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, due to the power of the Algerian boxer’s punches. According to the International Boxing Association, Khelif has XY chromosomes. Which means he is a man.
Do parents wish this for their daughters?
“I am heartbroken. I went to the ring to honor my father…I have never felt a punch like this.”
I got into the ring to fight. I didn’t give up. But one punch hurt too much and so I said, ‘Enough.’ I’m going out with my head held high.”
There are actually two men competing in women’s boxing in the Paris Olympics. NBC News confirms both Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu‑ting of Taiwan were disqualified from the Women’s World Boxing Championships last year for revealing via genetic testing that they both had XY (male) chromosomes, but the International Olympic Committee has cleared them both to fight against women in Women’s Boxing in Paris.
We wondered if something similar could happen locally. We learned that it can.