Taiwan's Lin will not go to the World Boxing Championships after undergoing a femininity test
The Taiwanese federation said it had forwarded the test results to World Boxing but had not received any response from the sport’s new global governing body.
Taiwan fighter Lin Yu-ting in a file image.
Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting, whose gender was questioned at the Paris Games where she won gold in her category, will not compete in the World Boxing Championships, the Taiwanese federation said, despite her coach’s assurance that she had undergone the femininity test required by the authorities.
The Taiwanese federation said it had sent the test results to World Boxing but had not received any response from the sport’s new global governing body, Taiwan’s Central News Agency reported Monday night.
“Lin will not take part in the World Championships,” starting in a few days in Liverpool, the Taiwanese federation confirmed to AFP on Tuesday. “We cannot authorize the athlete to travel to the United Kingdom without guarantees that she will be allowed to compete,” the source added, noting that, so far, World Boxing has not responded.
The 29-year-old Olympic champion agreed to undergo the mandatory femininity test, her coach Tseng Tzu-chiang told the news agency.
Under World Boxing’s new policy, athletes over 18 must undergo a genetic PCR test to determine their birth sex in order to compete in the women’s category.
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The Paris Olympics and disputes over women's boxing
At the Paris Games a year ago, Lin Yu-ting and Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, both Olympic champions in different categories, faced scrutiny and attacks questioning their femininity.
In 2023, they were barred from the World Championships by the International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA) after failing a femininity test, but the International Olympic Committee (IOC) cleared them to compete in Paris, calling them victims of “a hasty and arbitrary decision” by AIBA.
The claims about the femininity test
The Olympic champion in the -66 kg category is requesting that the test imposed by World Boxing be lifted, arguing that she should be allowed to compete in the World Championships in Liverpool (September 4–14) without undergoing any examination.
Her request is unlikely to succeed in the short term, as CAS has not granted an injunction allowing her to participate and has yet to schedule a hearing.
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