Khelif, a biological female who faced transphobic attacks regarding her physical appearance and gender during last summer's Paris Olympics, was singled out in the organization's announcement.

The president of World Boxing has apologized after Olympic champion Imane Khelif was singled out in the governing body’s announcement to make sex testing mandatory.

The desire to define who counts as a woman for the purpose of sports dates all the way back to Hitler’s Olympics. On the night of August 4, 1936, a Missouri farm girl named Helen Stephens went to bed the newly crowned fastest woman in the world. The next morning, Stephens awoke to an international firestorm.