The reportedly DSD athlete \u2014 previously disqualified from the Women\u2019s World Boxing Championships and barred from competing under World Boxing\u2019s new sex-testing policies \u2014 stepped back into the ring this week at Taiwan\u2019s National Games. In Lin\u2019s first match of the tournament, the opponent lasted just 1 minute and 34 seconds before the fight was stopped.<\/p>\n
Lin landed several blows to the head of 19-year-old Pan Yan-Fei, causing breathing difficulties and prompting her coach to throw in the towel. According to local reports, the stoppage was marked as “abandoned” (not a knockout) due to medical concerns.<\/p>\n
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Lin Yu-Ting is competing in Taiwan’s National Games, an event with no known sex-testing protocols.<\/p>\n
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Pan was making her first appearance at the senior National Games. Previously, she competed in Taiwan\u2019s U22 category and won a national high school title in 2023.<\/p>\n
This is Lin\u2019s first competition since winning Olympic gold in the women\u2019s featherweight division<\/a> at the 2024 Paris Games, where the boxer swept every match 5\u20130 and delivered a controversial rabbit punch to the back of Turkish opponent Esra Yildiz Kahraman\u2019s head.<\/p>\n Lin Yu-Ting Returns To Women’s Boxing Ring<\/p>\n OutKick previously reported that both Lin and Algerian boxer Imane Khelif<\/a> were ruled ineligible by the International Boxing Association (IBA) in 2023, after multiple medical tests that the IBA said confirmed they were biologically male. The IBA stated that DNA tests revealed XY chromosomes and cited concerns about athletes “trying to fool their colleagues and pretend to be women.”<\/p>\n Despite those findings, Lin was still allowed to compete at the Paris Olympics because the International Olympic Committee (IOC) does not require sex testing and allows the sports’ governing bodies to determine their own eligibility rules.<\/p>\n That loophole has since closed \u2014 at least on the international stage.<\/p>\n After Lin and Khelif\u2019s Olympic golds sparked global backlash, World Boxing instituted new eligibility rules. Under the updated policy, athletes must submit to genetic testing<\/a> and provide proof of no Y chromosome to compete in the women\u2019s category.<\/p>\n Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting \u2014 both reportedly DSD male athletes \u2014 won gold in their respective women’s divisions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.<\/p>\n (Getty Images)<\/p>\n Neither Lin nor Khelif appeared at the most recent World Boxing Championship. Still, Lin was cleared to compete in Taiwan’s National Games, an event with no known sex-testing protocols.<\/p>\n “Allowing a male boxer like Lin Yu-Ting to compete in the women\u2019s division is a blatant violation of fairness and, most importantly, a grave safety risk to female opponents,” Marshi Smith, spokesperson for the Independent Council on Women\u2019s Sports (ICONS), told REDUXX<\/a>.<\/p>\n “You wouldn\u2019t verify a weight class without a scale, and you can\u2019t claim to have a women\u2019s division without verifying sex. In a boxing ring, this isn\u2019t just an unfair competitive advantage, it is a potentially deadly one.”<\/p>\n Lin is now on track to win a seventh-straight National Games title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Taiwanese boxer’s 19-year-old opponent was pulled from the match after suffering breathing difficulties from repeated shots to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-232297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/imane-khelif-lin-yu-ting.jpg\")
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