Medical report reveals boxer Imane Khelif has "internal testicles"

A medical report, accessed by French journalist Djaffar Ait Aoudia, revealed that boxer Imane Khelif, Olympic champion in Paris in -66 kilos, has male biological characteristics.

The Algerian boxer became one of the protagonists of the Olympic Games because of her condition as a hyperandrogenic woman. The International Boxing Association (IBA) did not allow her to participate in the 2023 World Championships after she failed gender eligibility tests, but the International Olympic Committee did authorise her presence at Paris 2024.

The journalist from Le Correspondent reportedly had access to the Algerian's medical record from both the Kremlin Bicetre University Hospital in Paris and the Mohamed Lamine Debaghine Hospital in Algiers. Dated June 2023, it states that Khelif has a 5-alpha reductase deficiency, a disorder of sexual development that affects exclusively biologically male individuals.

This genetic disorder mainly affects boys and prevents the normal development of the sexual organs. At birth, male babies have a blind vaginal pouch and, due to the lack of proper diagnosis, they are often assigned a female identity.

During adolescence, they begin to see signs of masculinization, such as body hair, muscle mass or absence of breasts and menstruation. Further clinical examination usually confirms the diagnosis, with the presence of testes in the abdomen, a rudimentary prostate, and the absence of a uterus and ovaries.

The leaked medical report of Khelif, as reported by Le Correspondent, revealed that a pelvic MRI showed that she had no uterus and "gonads (testicles) in the inguinal canals, a blind vagina and a micropenis in the form of a clitoris. It is also noted that the Algerian has an XY karyotype (the complete set of chromosomes of an individual) (typical of men). Hormonal exploration also reveals that she has a "typical male testosterone level of 14.7", while the female gender does not exceed the maximum level of 3.

The medical report states that Imane Khelif, although she "lives fully as a woman", must undergo a sexual transition, with "surgical correction" (to remove her gonads) and "hormone therapy", based on a monthly injection of "Decapeptyl" (to reduce testosterone levels).

Georges Cazorla, an expert in the physical, physiological and biological monitoring of high-level teams and athletes who works with Khelif, explained that after the 2023 World Championships the boxer was examined by an endocrinologist at the Kremlin-Bicetre University Hospital in Paris, and that this medical examination confirmed that she was a woman, despite her karyotype and testosterone level. "There is a problem with her hormones, with her chromosomes, but she is a woman," he said. Now another report from the same year reveals the opposite.