Summarize and humanize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in EnglishAlgerian boxer Imane Khelif plans on defending her gold medal at the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles and said that U.S. President Donald Trump’s policies on transgender athletes will not affect her.“The U.S. president issued a decision related to transgender policies in America. I am not transgender,” Khelif said in an interview with British broadcaster ITV that aired Wednesday.Trump signed the “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” order on Feb. 5, which said, “It shall also be the policy of the United States to oppose male competitive participation in women’s sports more broadly, as a matter of safety, fairness, dignity, and truth.”“This does not concern me, and it does not intimidate me,” Khelif said. “That is my response.”Khelif’s run to welterweight gold in Paris drew international attention due to questions surrounding the gender eligibility of Khelif and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting, who won featherweight gold. Both women were permitted to box in Paris by the International Olympic Committee after they were declared ineligible for the International Boxing Association’s world championships in 2023 under murky circumstances.The IBA, which was suspended from organizing Olympic tournaments in 2019 and later expelled in 2023, is set to be replaced by World Boxing as the sport’s Olympic governing body after it was granted provisional recognition in February. On Monday, the IOC executive board recommended that boxing be included on the 2028 Olympic program.Midway through the 2024 Olympic tournament, the IBA held a hastily arranged news conference about Khelif and Lin, saying they were found to have “competitive advantages over other female competitors” but offered little additional explanation. An IOC spokesman said last summer that Khelif and Lin were “eligible by the rules of the federation” to compete as women.Both Khelif and Lin were assigned female at birth and have always identified as women.In Wednesday’s interview, Khelif called the IBA “a thing of the past” and said it “lacks credibility.”“As we say in Algeria, those who have nothing to hide should have no fear,” she said. “The truth became clear at the Paris Olympics — the injustice was exposed, and later, the truth was acknowledged by the Olympic Committee in Paris.”World Boxing did not previously respond to questions about whether it had been in contact with the Trump administration, or about whether Khelif and Lin would be eligible under its rules. Both Algeria and Chinese Taipei (the Olympic designation for Taiwan) are members of World Boxing.In the interview, Khelif said she was “shocked” by how famous figures from around the world, such as Trump and J.K. Rowling, spoke about her “without having verified facts.” The comments made affected not only her mental health but her family’s, she said.“Even my mother was deeply affected — she was going to the hospital almost every day,” Khelif said. “My relatives were also impacted, and the entire Algerian people felt the weight of the situation. This went beyond just a sporting issue or a game; it escalated into a major media campaign that could have had a severe negative effect on me, my family, and my psychological well-being.”Despite the hardship, Khelif said being an Olympic champion as a Muslim woman in an Arab nation “is something truly special.”“I believe the inspiration from the Paris Olympics has grown, and many young people now feel motivated and want to enter this field, boxing. From my side, I want to give them all the encouragement they need.(Photo: Richard Pelham / Getty Images)
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