Imane Khelif dares Trump administration to stop him from defending gold medal at 2028 Olympics: 'I am not transgender'



Imane Khelif said President Donald Trump's executive order does not matter in terms or whether or not the boxer will be able to compete in the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.

Khelif has become a controversial figure after beating women in boxing at the 2024 Paris Olympics despite multiple groups concluding he is male. The International Boxing Association and the World Boxing Organization determined Khelif to be a man, as did a team of endocrinologists who reportedly revealed a pelvic MRI of Khelif that showed the "absence of a uterus" and the presence of "gonads in inguinal canals," meaning testicles in the abdomen.

During a recent interview, Khelif continued to deny these allegations and added to his months-long campaign of accusing public figures of hate speech.

"I won the gold medal, which was the best response after all the bullying I was subjected to. My response during the Paris Olympics was always in the ring. And responding by winning the gold medal was even better," Khelif said.

"I see myself as a girl, just like any other girl. I was born a girl, raised as a girl, and have lived my entire life as one," the boxer later added.

Imane Khelif attends the Bottega Veneta fashion show in Milan. Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images

Khelif told ITV that his victory in the women's boxing category was the most important triumph at the last Olympics, because it not only came with "ethical" and "athletic" implications, but also was significant for the idea of "sportsmanship," as well.

The Algerian admitted to being shocked when "heads of state, famous figures, and former athletes" spoke about the ordeal, which is likely what led to the boxer filing criminal hate-speech complaints in France, including claims of "aggravated cyber harassment."

Author J.K. Rowling, Elon Musk, and President Trump were all accused by the athlete of being far too mean in their criticisms.

Still, Khelif said critics were speaking "without any reliable or documented information," calling all the sources that accuse the boxer of being male not "trustworthy."

"The IBA is not recognized by the International Olympic Committee, which means this federation lacks credibility and is not trusted within the Olympic Games," Khelif claimed. "At this point, I can say that the IBA is a thing of the past."

'Those who have nothing to hide should have no fear.'

The 25-year-old insisted that President Trump's executive order aimed at preventing men from competing in women's sports would not be an issue at the Olympics in Los Angeles, which will take place during Trump's term.

Bluntly, Khelif said he is not transgender.

"I will give you a straightforward answer: The U.S. president issued a decision related to transgender policies in America. I am not transgender. This does not concern me, and it does not intimidate me. That is my response."

Khelif went on, "As we say in Algeria, those who have nothing to hide should have no fear."

The controversial gold medalist fully intends to compete at the games in Los Angeles, and with reports that the IOC will be asked to ban athletes purporting to be transgender, there could be a very public standoff leading up to the 2028 games.

The IOC typically leaves athlete testing and rules up to governing bodies that pertain to each sport, but after the IBA was dropped by the Olympics before the 2020 games, the IOC decided to govern boxing on its own, which involved no gender testing.

"Of course, I defend with everything I have, this gold medal," Khelif concluded. "I continue my dream, my everything."

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Former NCAA hurdler demands 'stolen' championship be returned after she was defeated by male athlete: 'I want it back'



Former track and field athlete Minna Svärd is asking the NCAA to award her a 2019 victory that she says was "stolen" by a male athlete participating in the women's division.

Svärd raced for East Texas A&M University in 2019 in the women's 400-meter hurdles and was the fastest female at any NCAA Division II school.

Svärd wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal and participated in subsequent interviews regarding a race at the NCAA championships where she posted a time of 59.21 seconds. Unfortunately, a male athlete named CeCe Telfer was also in that race, and with a time of 57.53, beat her by 1.68 seconds.

"It's been five years since that honor was stolen from me," Svärd wrote. "I want it back."

The Swedish athlete also revealed in an interview with Megyn Kelly that Telfer was allegedly ranked 390th in men's competitions before becoming the top female hurdler less than two years later. The male towered over his competition at events, dwarfing female athletes in side-by-side comparisons that made footage a travesty to watch.

'My dreams were taken away from me once again.'

Telfer was heralded by progressive activists after his win and received an honor for his "pioneering actions" in the sport of track and field. He was soon paraded around on networks like CNN and CBS who celebrated him for his alleged struggle as a black woman.

In 2024, the athlete promised vengeance in response to criticisms and said he would return to women's sports and take more records from female athletes.

"My dreams were taken away from me once again. So I plan on going back to New England, hitting up all the indoor competitions, and taking all the names, all the records, and everything," he said in an interview.

Correcting the record

Svärd, applauding President Trump's executive order aimed at preventing men from competing in women's sports, still said the order does not go far enough. She added that official results of past competitions should be corrected to align with the reality that they were the result of male competitors.

However, the Department of Education made the very same declaration in February. The government agency sent a letter to the NCAA demanding any records or awards given to males in female categories be returned to the actual winners.

The letter defined such awards or records as being "wrongfully credited to male athletes."

Svärd has echoed many sentiments shared by female athletes who had opportunities taken by men posing as women, such as the fact that every time a male athlete enters or participates in a women's event, it displaces at least one female athlete that should have been there.

This rings true according to a United Nations study from 2024, which claimed more than 600 female athletes lost podium positions in 29 sporting categories to male athletes.

While Svärd is still waiting for her championship to be returned to her, she cited one unfortunate accolade that cannot be taken away:

"That made me the first collegiate woman to be told her victory was worth less than a man's feelings."

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'Cruel and depraved': Ex-US soccer player Megan Rapinoe trashes Trump's executive order to keep men out of women's sports



Former professional women's soccer player Megan Rapinoe characterized President Donald Trump's executive order to keep males out of female sports as "cruel" and against human rights.

Rapinoe is a longtime critic of Trump who has focused on the idea that men who believe they are women who should be treated as females, even in regard to playing in female sports.

Retirement has not stopped Rapinoe from using her popularity to speak out on these subjects, which continued in a recent interview with outlet Mundial.

Referring to Trump's executive order titled, "Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports," Rapinoe said she did not believe the intention behind Trump's action was sincere.

"Don't tell me it's about the rights of women's sports," she began. "That is totally disingenuous to say that."

'This isn't an issue ...'

The order declared that women have a right to play in sports only against other biological women and shall not be forced to compete with men, compete against men, or change in front of men.

Nevertheless, Rapinoe continued and claimed that the idea that men are infiltrating women's sports is not an existing problem.

"I think it's just really cruel," she went on. "You know, if you strip it all back, it's just kind of cruel and depraved. This isn't an issue, and you aren't going to be able to executive order trans people out of existence.

The 39-year-old then cited what she called a decade-long period of fighting for rights before claiming that the issue of ridding women's sports of men was actually just an issue of criticizing women's sports.

"We've just gone through a very long period, over 10 years, of really needing to fight just to get to a baseline of, like, equal rights and non-discriminatory behavior, and when people stop just s**tting on women's sports. I think we are sort of at that moment."

Responses to Rapinoe were instant, including commentator and host Piers Morgan, who called Rapinoe a "fraud," according to the Daily Mail.

Meanwhile, OutKick founder Clay Travis mocked Rapinoe for wanting "grown men in women’s sports" before declaring that "her brain is broken."

Rapinoe has kept up her focus on both transgenderism and Trump since her retirement. In July 2024, she criticized U.S. women's soccer player Korbin Albert for posting content critical of transgenderism on social media. Rapinoe accused Albert of hiding behind her faith and questioned if the 20-year-old was "making any type of space safer, more inclusive" or "more whole."

Then, shortly after Trump's election in November, she said that she was hoping for better than the "grim, dark, violent reality" of another term under President Trump, a future that she said Trump had "very clearly" laid out for the country.

Rapinoe's insistence that gender battles in women's sports are not happening unfortunately can be disproven by examples from just the last 30 days. These examples included a California high school girls' basketball team with a dominating male player on the roster and a transgender track and field runner who defeated teenage girls at an event in New York.

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Civil Rights Office declares Maine is violating Title IX by letting males play in female sports



The Department of Health and Human Service's Civil Rights Office says Maine's department of education cannot hide behind its principals' association in order to continue to authorize males to play in female sports.

In a surprising announcement Monday, the Office of Civil Rights said the Maine Department of Education, the Maine Principals’ Association, and Greely High School are each in violation of Title IX.

As Blaze News previously reported, a male athlete from Greely High School in Cumberland, Maine, took first place in a girls' pole vault competition at the Maine Indoor Track Meet.

Just a week later, a second travesty occurred when a male athlete took a podium spot from a female athlete in Maine's state championship for girls' high school Nordic skiing.

In both scenarios, the Maine Principals' Association took responsibility for governing high school sports in the state and declared it would defy President Trump's executive order to prevent women's sports from being infiltrated by men.

'The Maine Department of Education may not shirk its obligations under Federal law ...'

The HHS Civil Rights Office said in its press release, however, that all three of the state's aforementioned offices had violated Title IX and must begin to comply.

"The Maine Department of Education may not shirk its obligations under Federal law by ceding control of its extracurricular activities, programs, and services to the Maine Principals’ Association," said Anthony Archeval, acting director of the Office for Civil Rights. "We hope the Maine Department of Education, the Maine Principals’ Association, and Greely High School will work with us to come to an agreement that restores fairness in women's sports."

The Civil Rights Office further cited the president's executive order and emphasized the protection of female student athletes. The office said there was a necessity to shield women from having to "to compete with or against or having to appear unclothed before males."

Noting a federal mandate to rescind funding from programs that fail to comply with the executive order, the Office of Civil Rights called protecting women a "matter of safety, fairness, dignity, and truth" and championed the "larger initiative" to defend women and "restore biological truth" to federal government.

President Trump had already slashed Maine's public university funding over the ordeal, which consists of seven universities and a law school. The University of Maine System lost access to a reported $56.1 million in active USDA grants.

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Christian women's basketball team wins national title despite being punished for speaking out against transgender player



A women's college basketball team won a national championship despite being sanctioned for their coach's alleged criticism of an opposing team for having a male athlete.

Columbia Bible College won the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association women's basketball national championship on Saturday night with a 77-70 win over St. Mary's. This was the program's first national championship in school history.

CBC had been previously sanctioned over a controversy surrounding a transgender player and the Christian school's refusal to back down from their beliefs. Particularly, coach Taylor Claggett was suspended after she reportedly complained about the inclusion of transgender player Harriette Mackenzie, a 6'2'' male basketball player who identifies as a transgender woman and is allowed to play in the conference.

As Blaze News previously reported, Mackenzie was seen in highlights knocking over at least half a dozen women in a physically dominating display.

The transgender player claimed at the time that coach Claggett "cornered" a staff member from his team and complained about the fact there was a male on the team.

"The opposing team's head coach cornered one of our athletic staff and went on a tirade about how I shouldn't be allowed to play," Mackenzie said, according to Saanich News.

Claggett was subsequently suspended and the team was pulled from hosting duties for the conference championship.

"Despite being called ‘transphobic’ & their head coach Taylor Claggett’s suspension ... the CBC Bearcats just won first place at nationals!" reporter Drea Humphrey wrote on X.

"[The coach is] not allowed to watch the games in person because [the governing body] has no soul. She’s very happy and giving thanks to God," Humphrey added in response to a comment.

She’s not allowed to watch the games in person because @pacwestbc has no soul.

She’s very happy and giving thanks to God.
— Drea Humphrey (@DreaHumphrey) March 16, 2025

The male player angered many over the sheer dominance with which he played, breaking a plethora of female athletic records and even earning the nickname the "Record Breaker" at Mount Royal University.

Mackenzie broke the following records in women's basketball:

  • Most single-season total rebounds (212)
  • Offensive rebounds in a season (86)
  • Rebounds per game (10.6)
  • Total free throws made in a season (90)
  • Playoff points in a single game (22)
  • Double-doubles in a season (10)

Nevertheless, CBC won the national title with player Elissa Vreugdenhil named MVP, while Grace Park had 20 points, six rebounds, and four assists to win player of the game.

Park's father was one of the few people to speak out about the ordeal; Jae Park called the male athlete on the women's team "very unjust" and "totally unfair."

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Volleyball player injured by transgender athlete reveals she was booted from sorority for confronting male in female bathroom



A former athlete who advocates against men in women's sports revealed she was kicked out of a sorority because she questioned a man as to why he was in a women's bathroom.

Payton McNabb was just 17 years old when she was hit in the face with a volleyball that was spiked by a male athlete playing on a women's team. She soon spoke out about having suffered a concussion, brain damage, and paralysis on one side of her face.

Now 19, McNabb has proven she was kicked out of her sorority at Western Carolina University for "bullying."

The claim from Delta Zeta stemmed from a 2024 video in which McNabb confronted a male who was in the female bathroom.

"What are you doing?" McNabb asked the male in the video.

"Going to the bathroom," the man in a yellow dress and hat responded.

"Why are you in the girls' bathroom?" she replied.

"I'm a trans girl," he claimed.

"But you're not a girl," McNabb said back.

Persistent, the male then said, "Oh, we're doing one of these?"

"I've never had this before. I don't know what to say. I'm sorry you feel that way," the male added.

As the unknown individual exited the bathroom, McNabb remarked that she pays money — to the school — to feel safe in the bathroom, and she asked the individual if he thought what he was doing was OK.

'Men don't belong in women's bathrooms.'

Riley Gaines, a former NCAA athlete and women's sports activist, posted the video alongside a letter from the sorority.

The letter stated McNabb's membership had been "terminated" on the grounds of "bullying."

Written like a document from a futuristic dystopian government, the sorority also listed "Outcome: Responsible" in reference to McNabb for a second "violation" for "Moral-Prejudicial Conduct."

That alleged violation was described as "conduct which is prejudicial to the Sorority, tending to bring it into disrepute; obstructs the work or discipline of the chapter; or fails to uphold the expectations of conduct expected of Delta Zetas, thereby offending her fellow members."

McNabb shared the video and letter on her X account and said her removal from the sorority was based on her "stating the simple truth."

"Men don't belong in women's bathrooms. Instead of standing by me, they chose to appease a grown man living in a false reality. The organization meant to empower women turned its back on one to protect a lie," McNabb added.

Payton McNabb (C) and Second Lady Usha Vance (R) attend President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol on March 4, 2025, in Washington, DC. Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images

McNabb attended President Trump's address to a joint session of Congress last week and received praise from the president for her resilience through all of her endeavors.

As reported by Blaze News, McNabb later criticized Democrats who attended the session after many wore pink suits in solidarity with women, despite no Democrats voting in favor of the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, legislation aimed at keeping men out of women's sports.

"Last night, I thought that the pink suits and everyone matching was real cute," McNabb remarked. "The day before, zero Democrats voted for the protection of women and girls, and then zero Democrats stood and applauded when I was getting recognized for my injury."

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