Claressa Shields weighs in on trans Olympic boxing controversy after fighters who failed gender tests were allowed to take on women in Paris

Women's boxing world champion Claressa Shields has fumed complete nan determination to let 2 fighters who grounded gender tests to compete against females astatine this summer's Paris Olympics.

Olympic chiefs person sparked outrage by allowing Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-Ting of Taiwan - who were some thrown retired of past year's world championships aft being deemed biologic males - to participate nan women's boxing class successful Paris.

Khelif, who besides competed astatine nan 2020 Tokyo Olympics, was disqualified from nan title aft failing gender eligibility tests anterior to her scheduled gold-medal bout, while Yu-Ting was stripped of her bronze pursuing a akin result.

Despite this, nan 2 boxers are group to conflict against women athletes successful nan coming days aft nan International Olympic Committee (IOC) bosses insisted they person met each nan required eligibility criteria to do so.

But Shields, who presently holds master women's world titles successful 3 abstracted weight classes, has go nan latest high-profile fig to deed retired astatine nan decision.

The two-time Olympic golden medalist wrote connected X: 'So they sewage men fighting against women successful nan Olympics boxing ! I wouldn’t person stood for nary worldly for illustration that! 

'That is truthful heartbreaking to nan women who person to person their dreams ruined by a man. Sad asf!'

Shields first roseate to fame successful women's boxing erstwhile she captured 2 golden medals astatine nan Olympics; first coming retired connected apical astatine nan 2012 Games successful London earlier repeating nan feat 4 years later successful Rio de Janeiro.

She is not nan only female combatant to definitive complete nan trans boxing contention successful Paris, pinch erstwhile Australian world champion Ebanie Bridges besides voicing her disapproval.

'Bruh... these transgenders competing successful women's boxing AT THE OLYMPICS... antheral calved transgenders, is f***en sickening,' Bridges posted connected X.

'It's f***en disgusting that nan Olympic committee would fto these guys/girls who still look for illustration men compete against women. 

'And these biologic men who want to compete successful women's boxing must beryllium saddists aliases thing cos immoderate man knows really overmuch stronger they are than females and it's besides why a man hitting a women is truthful bad.. nan biologic quality IS REAL. 

'What nan f**k. Honestly unbelievable and sick.'

Amid nan uproar, nan IOC has warned against a 'witch-hunt' amid disapproval of its determination to let Khelif and Yu-Ting to compete.  

At nan clip of their world-championships disqualification Umar Kremlev, president of nan International Boxing Association (IBA), claimed nan tests had proven nan athletes had 'XY chromosomes'. 

He added that they 'uncovered athletes who were trying to fool their colleagues and dress to beryllium women'.

But pursuing past year's ban, nan Algerian Olympic Committee deed backmost by claiming nan disqualification was portion of a 'conspiracy' to extremity their combatant Khelif from winning a golden medal.