Lauren Boebert got so mad at boxer Imane Khelif that she's raising thousands for her opponent

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Lauren Boebert got so mad at boxer Imane Khelif that she's raising thousands for her opponent - LGBTQ Nation
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See the Wiki linked above:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imane_Khelif

"In 2023, IBA president Umar Kremlev said that the disqualifications were because DNA tests "proved they had XY chromosomes"."

I'm not going to get into the accuracy of the allegations, the IBA refused to prove them, but the fact is the allegation itself has been around for more than a year, long before the current Olympics and Bobo's statement.

I'll grant you, Boebert wasn't the first person to make the claim. But I doubt she's got an awareness of historical allegations from an association that most people who don't follow boxing won't have heard of. I suspect she's either jumping on a bandwagon of other people making the claim, or making a claim based on her 'feeling' that Khelif doesn't look traditionally feminine.