Khelif spoke to CNN, exterior on Wednesday, saying she had “nothing to cover” and would adjust to testing necessities if carried out by the IOC.
“After all, I might settle for doing something I am required to do to take part in competitions,” she mentioned.
“They need to shield girls, however they want to concentrate that whereas defending girls, they should not harm different girls.”
Khelif, 26, has all the time fought in girls’s classes. “I am not transgender. I am a girl,” she advised CNN. “I need to stay my life. Please don’t exploit me in your political agendas.”
US President Donald Trump final yr referred to Khelif as a “male boxer” after he had signed an government order that forestalls transgender girls from competing in feminine classes of sports activities.
A brand new physique, World Boxing, was granted provisional recognition as the game’s worldwide governing federation by the IOC in February 2025.
It has launched obligatory genetic checks for athletes to “decide their intercourse at beginning and their eligibility to compete”.
When asserting the change, it cited Khelif – and later apologised for that.
Khelif lodged an enchantment with the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) over World Boxing’s introduction of obligatory checks in August.
A listening to on that case remains to be pending.
