DISINFO: If Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is a woman then so is Thomas Bach

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DISINFO: If Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is a woman then so is Thomas Bach

SUMMARY

If Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is a woman, then the president of the IOC Thomas Bach may be a woman too. She just did not come out yet. Real women protest against the admission of men who pretend to be women in the competition.

RESPONSE

Pro-Kremlin narrative about the Paris 2024 Olympics including harassment against the head of the the International Olympic Committee and hate speech against the LGBT community.

Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is neither a man, nor a trans-gender person. The athlete was born a woman and always competed as a woman. It is true however that her participation in the competition led to a legitimate debate since she has a rare pathology that provokes an uncommon level of masculine hormones. 

Read also related cases such as: Olympic organisers made lesbians, transpersons, and prostitutes the heroes of the Last Supper, or The West is morally corrupted, Everything that is not LGBT will soon be forbidden in France.

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