Algeria knocked the absolute lights out of Italy in the Olympics in Paris recently and everyone’s tits are sore about it. There seems to be a lot of information swirling around this individual, but there are a few facts that really shouldn’t be discarded. First, Algeria isn’t exactly a “LGBT-friendly” country. Homosexuality is illegal in Algeria. So how exactly would a trans person obtain a passport legally if they cannot legally change the gender they identify with? It’s stated that Imane Khelif’s passport lists her as female. As a direct result you can assume her birth certificate was issued identifying her as female, which would mean the doctor who facilitated her birth observed she is genetically female.

That said, she had been disqualified for failing gender tests in previous competitions, though no one has said explicitly what those gender tests were comprised of. One can certainly speculate that she perhaps failed with high testosterone levels, but it’s only speculation.

It’s a wild situation for sure, though. Is she on steroids? Is that why she failed gender tests? Wouldn’t the Olympic doping committee have caught that?

Currently there are more questions than answers in this Olympic gender drama.