00:05:59.260You know, if you'd like to gather around me, I think I'm going to be okay.
00:06:03.900Prior to the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics, only three so-called top-tier sports,
00:06:10.260track and field, swimming, and cycling, had a ban on males who identified as females
00:06:15.140and had also gone through male puberty.
00:06:17.860Last year, Coventry becoming the first female elected as IOC president.
00:06:22.260According to the Associated Press, female eligibility was a major theme during last
00:06:26.840election, and in June, Coventry set up a review of protecting the female category. The issue
00:06:33.600coming to a head in female boxing during the 2024 Olympics, two individuals, Lin Yoting of
00:06:39.780Chinese Taipei and Emain Khalif of Algeria, won gold in the female categories after having
00:06:46.920previously been ruled ineligible to compete as women by the International Boxing Association.
00:06:52.540World Boxing, a separate organization, cleared Lin to return to international competition earlier this week
00:07:01.100after completing a review of Lin's gender eligibility, according to Reuters.
00:07:07.100Khalif reportedly told a French outlet that he has the SRY gene located on the Y chromosome,
00:07:14.440which is found in biological males and which would make him ineligible under the IOC's new rules,
00:07:20.140Though he added, quote, I have taken hormone treatments to lower my testosterone levels for competitions, end quote, his admission about his Y chromosome confirms he is biologically male.
00:07:32.100He told CNN last month that he would be willing to undergo genetic testing to compete in Los Angeles, saying, quote, they should protect women, but they need to pay attention that while protecting women, they shouldn't hurt other women.