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Lin Yu-Ting, the Taiwanese boxer competing for the Chinese Taipei Olympic delegation defeated Sitora Turdibekova of Uzbekistan in a unanimous decision in her opening bout at North Paris Arena on Friday._ --- Aug 3, 2024 3:40 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Olympic Boxer Imane Khelif Breaks Silence on ‘Bullying’ Over Gender Misconceptions](/video/vecG7d1A/) ### Olympic Boxer Imane Khelif Breaks Silence on ‘Bullying’ Over Gender Misconceptions [Top 4 Highest Paid Boxers in 2018](/video/uMKPDkIm/) ### Top 4 Highest Paid Boxers in 2018 [Justin Bieber Undresses to His Boxers on Stage](/video/cvj4h62K/) ### Justin Bieber Undresses to His Boxers on Stage --- ## Transcript Hi, I'm Sean Gregory from time, reporting alive north of Paris at the boxing Ana for the Olympics, where today Lin Yuting of Chinese Taipei defeated her opponent from Uzbekistan in her opening bout. She advances to the quarterfinals. As does Iman Khalif from Algeria. These two boxers were suspended by the International Boxing Association at world championships last year for unspecified gender violation. We don't really know much about it. There's been a lot of controversy about the participation of these two boxers here at the Olympics. Here's what we don't know. We don't know their condition. We don't know their testosterone levels. Are they intersex athletes, or do they have disorders of sex development which can cause high high levels of testosterone in female athletes. Here's what we pretty much do know. They are not transgender athletes. There's been a lot of misinformation about that. Dias, discriminate galca There's a lot of regulations. They are able to compete because they've identified as female on their passport. I think the question you have to ask yourself is are these athletes women? The answer is yes, according to eligibility according to their passports, according to the history, a test which may have happened overnight, was made up test, which is new. I don't think we should give that any credence at all. If we start acting on every issue, every allegation that comes up, then we start having the kind of which hunts that we're having now. According to the IOC Khalif grew up in her country as a woman, according to Unicef, that's been her life. Algerian boxer was born female, was registered female, lived her life as a female, boxed as a female, has a female passport. This is not a transgender case. I know you're not saying that, but there has been some confusion that somehow it's a man fighting a woman. This is just not the case. Scientifically on that there is consensus. Scientifically, this is not a man fighting a woman, and I think we need to get that. Yuting. Same thing. There have been a lot of people in Taiwan who have come out in support of her saying, she's been a woman her whole life. So this is a nuanced conversation. It's a tough conversation to have. It is a conversation that will be ongoing as both fighters continue over the weekend in their quarter finals. 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