Two boxers who were previously barred from a women’s competition over gender concerns are set to compete in the Paris Olympics.

Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu‑ting of Taiwan were disqualified from the Women’s World Boxing Championships in New Delhi last year after their chromosome tests came back as XY. Men typically have XY chromosomes, while women have XX chromosomes.

“Based on DNA tests, we identified a number of athletes who tried to trick their colleagues into posing as women,” Umar Kremlev, president of the International Boxing Association, which governs the World Boxing Championships, said at the time.

“According to the results of the tests, it was proved that they have XY chromosomes. Such athletes were excluded from competition,” Kremlev said.

However, both boxers have been cleared to fight in the women’s 66-kilogram and women’s 57-kilogram matches this week at the Paris Olympics, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) confirmed.

Khelif is set to fight Italy’s Angela Carini on Thursday. Carini said in an emotional tribute after one of her victories recently that she wanted to win for her father, who has passed away.

Yu‑ting is scheduled to fight Uzbekistan’s Sitora Turdibekova on Friday.

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In 2021, the IOC changed its transgender rules, allowing each sport’s governing body to decide whether a trans-identifying athlete should compete. The Paris 2024 Boxing Unit is in charge of eligibility standards for this year’s Olympic boxing.

On social media, backlash mounted over a viral video of Khelif pummeling a female opponent, Mexico’s Brianda Sandoval, during a December 2022 fight.

Two men have been allowed to compete in women’s boxing for the 2024 Olympics.

Biological male, Imane Khelif (blue), is on video boxing Mexico’s Brianda Sandoval.

We live in the stupidest of times. pic.twitter.com/UZQMshhT3S

— Amiri King (@AmiriKing) July 30, 2024

Cruz spoke out recently about the viral fight, saying that afterwards, she had “never felt like that in my 13 years as a boxer, nor in my sparring with men.”

“When I fought her I felt very out of my depth,” Cruz told The Telegraph. “Her blows hurt me a lot. Thank God that day I got out of the ring safely, and it’s good that they finally realized.”

Trans-identifying males competing with women has become a hot button issue in recent years. Female athletes have spoken out about how competing against biological males affected them, saying they missed out on opportunities and scholarships because they lost competitions, and they felt uncomfortable sharing locker rooms with their male competitors.

Critics have also raised serious concerns about biological males playing alongside women and girls, including high school girls getting physically injured. Last year in North Carolina, a female high school volleyball player suffered severe trauma after a trans-identifying male player spiked a volleyball that hit her head.

Whoopi Goldberg claimed that Vice President Kamala Harris — now the Democratic Party’s de facto 2024 nominee — was never the Border Czar, and in the same breath claimed that Republicans were the ones who didn’t “like facts.”

Goldberg repeated the current media narrative around Harris and the southern border, insisting that despite multiple reports at the time saying she’d been put in charge of the border — and even referring to her as the Border Czar — she had never actually been put in charge of the border.

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Declaring the GOP “don’t like facts,” Whoopi Goldberg reads from note card of Democratic Party talking points falsely proclaiming: “Kamala Harris was never the border czar, never. Her job was to deal and find out the root causes of migration from Central America.” pic.twitter.com/ApYE8PwCSx

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) July 31, 2024

“Let’s get some factual information,” Goldberg began. “Kamala Harris was never the border czar, never. Her job was to deal and find out the root causes of migration from Central America. That was what Biden asked her to do, to lead diplomatic efforts to reduce poverty, violence, corruption in the northern triangle — Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.”

“Now, if y’all ain’t sure about this, ask Joe Biden,” Goldberg continued. “He gave her the job. She made sure that she went to all these countries to see what was going on; that was the job she was asked to do and that’s what she did.”

Goldberg left out the fact that despite any efforts Harris may have made to find the “root causes” of migration — and thus stem the tide that has overwhelmed the border almost since the day President Joe Biden took office — the illegal immigration numbers have only gotten worse since she was tapped to handle the situation.

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And while Goldberg is correct in stating that Biden did not officially name Harris the Border Czar, the White House made no effort to correct the dozens of media outlets that referred to her using that term. In fact, it was not until President Joe Biden’s abrupt exit from the 2024 presidential race — and Harris’ elevation to de facto nominee — that the vice president and her media surrogates began their concerted efforts to separate her from any responsibility she may have had at the border.