Article originally appeared on www.westernjournal.com.
Bulgarian fighter Svetlana Staneva may have been a loser this weekend in the ring, but she’s won big in the social media viral popularity sweepstakes.
On Sunday, Staneva was the loser to Taiwan’s Lin Yu-Ting in the second round of the 57kg division of women’s boxing at the Olympics in Paris. Lin is best known as the other boxer disqualified by the International Boxing Association from the 2023 world championships for failing a gender test.
Both she and Algeria’s Imane Khelif are alleged to have what’s known as Differences of Sexual Development, or DSD. To put it in the simplest layman’s terms, it’s an umbrella statement for when there’s some kind of “mismatch” between’s one’s chromosomes and one’s genitalia or other marker of outward sexual development.
In this case, both boxers are reported to have failed a specialized test which shows they have XY chromosomes — which would normally make them …
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