Controversy surrounding gender eligibility in women’s boxing continues as Taiwan’s Lin Yu-Ting defeated Bulgaria’s Svetlana Staneva in a decisive fashion in the quarterfinal match of the women’s 57 kg category on Sunday (August 4).
After the bout, with a score of 5-0 in favor of the Asian athlete, Staneva looked at the crowd and signaled two X symbols with her index fingers.
Her message is seemingly a direct allusion to the decision by the International Boxing Association (IBA) to disqualify both Lin Yu-Ting and Algeria’s Imane Khelif from the 2023 World Championships due to internal tests showing they possessed XY chromosomes.
