The desire to define who counts as a woman for the purpose of sports dates back to Hitler’s Olympics. On the night of Aug. 4, 1936, 18-year-old Helen Stephens of Fulton, Missouri, went to bed the newly crowned fastest woman in the world. The next morning, Stephens awoke to an international firestorm.

Imane Khelif has essentially ‘gone missing’ and released no statement after being forced to withdraw from the Eindhoven Box Cup. Khelif, 26, an Olympic gold medallist, saw her Paris 2024 triumph marred by controversy surrounding her gender.

The president of World Boxing has apologized after Olympic champion Imane Khelif was singled out in the governing body’s announcement to make sex testing mandatory.