Algerian boxer Iman khif is caught in the middle of a debate over gender regulations in sports on Thursday her Italian opponent Angela karini pulled out just 46 seconds into their boxing match karini said she quit because of the pain from getting hit some are pointing to khalif’s disqualification from the 2023 World Championships after the international boxing Association cited heightened testosterone levels in her system but that metric of Eligibility has been questioned by scientists and the international Olympic Committee khif was assigned female at Birth and it says so on her passport which is now the ioc’s threshold for eligibility for boxing after disagreements with the Iva but the issue has become politicized with figures like former US president Donald Trump and author JK Rowling questioning her eligibility in women’s boxing and it’s raising concerns over safety for athletes like khif and the lgbtq plus Community after a swarm of hateful comments misidentified her gender identity