Imane Khelif: The Olympian could be seen standing in the middle of an Instagram video posted by both Beauty Code and Khelif. She was wearing a blue shirt and her red boxing gloves. The video then changed to a shot of Khelif wearing a different outfit. She was wearing a white shirt with flowers that buttoned up and pink flower-shaped hoops.
She wore pink makeup and eyeshadow that matched, as well as a silver necklace. At the end of her outfit, Khelif put on the gold medal she won in the women’s welterweight event in Paris on August 9. At the end of the video, the Algerian athlete smiled at the camera while her hair was curled and flowing.
It was written in English from Arabic in the description that Beauty Code said Khelif was “changing her appearance” in the video but that her personality was not based on how she looked. She also “did not try to change her shape to fit the molds that the world wants to confine us to.”
“Her message is much deeper: clothes don’t make a monk, and how someone looks doesn’t show who they are,” the description said. “When she wants to, she can be girly and fancy, but when she’s in the ring, she doesn’t need makeup or high heels.” She only needs to plan, be strong, and be able to fight, which is what makes her who she is.
Many people on X (formerly Twitter) liked Khelif’s new look, but some said the fighter shouldn’t have to change her look to make her look more feminine.
“What a beautiful woman. “The internet should say sorry to her,” one person wrote. “She looks stunning, and the haters are still crying,” said someone else.
“It’s kind of lame that she had to dress in a very girly way to please the eyes of strangers.” “But the makeover eats—nibbles a bit, I should say,” wrote a third person.
“She didn’t need to do this,” said someone else. From what I saw on her Instagram, this is not at all who she is. They ought to have left her alone.
Khelif beat Yang Liu in the first round of the Olympics to win gold in the women’s welterweight event. She was Algeria’s first woman to ever win a boxing gold medal at the games. But a few days earlier, anger erupted when Angela Carini pulled out of her round-of-16 fight against the Algerian after 46 seconds. During the game, Carini was heard telling her teacher, “It’s not right, it’s not right!” This caused a debate online about Khelif, who is said to have failed a 2023 test to prove her gender.
In 2017, Khelif was not allowed to compete in her gold-medal match at the women’s World Championships in New Delhi because she did not meet the IBA’s requirements for qualifying. Lin Yu-ting, Hong Kong’s two-time world winner, also lost her bronze medal at the same event because she didn’t meet the requirements.
The IBA didn’t say why the fighters failed their gender tests, but they did say that neither of them had testosterone tests. Lin, 28, and Khelif, 24, both don’t think of themselves as transgender or intersex. In July, though, the International Olympic Committee said that both of them could play in the 2024 Olympics.
Khelif talked about how people would look at her on social media and make comments about her gender after she won an Olympic gold title. “I was born a woman and lived a woman.” “There’s no question about it,” she said at the event. “The things people say about me on social media are wrong.” People all over the world need to change their minds.
She also told the IBA that by winning gold, she was sending a message of “honor and dignity.”
“As for whether I qualify or not and whether I’m a woman or not, I’ve said many times in the media that I am fully qualified and that I am a woman. I was born a woman and I lived a woman.” “That’s for sure,” she said. People who say I’m not who I say I am are the ones who want you to fail. That’s what I call them. For some reason, these attacks make my success taste even better.
Khelif later went to court and said she was the subject of online harassment. Lawyer Nabil Boudi for her said in the case that she was the victim of “aggravated cyber-harassment.” He said in a statement that the reaction online was a “sexist, racist, and misogynistic campaign” against the boxer.
On August 13, Boudi told Variety, “The lawsuit names J.K. Rowling, Elon Musk, and other people.” He also said that Donald Trump would be a part of the hunt. It doesn’t matter if Trump is named in our case or not; he will still be looked into as part of the prosecution.
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