The run-up to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games witnessed much debate about the inclusion of transgender people in sports activities with some restrictions on transgender athletes implemented in the qualifying rounds. 

Athletes such as American transgender swimmer Lia Thomas were then excluded from competing at this summer's Olympics, even taking the case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

This weekend, boxer Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu Ting of Taiwan are both set to fight in different boxing categories of the Paris Olympics despite being disqualified from the World Championships in New Delhi last year for failing to pass gender eligibility tests.

"Everyone competing in the women's category is complying with the eligibility criteria," said International Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Adams. "They are women in their passports and it's stated that is the case, and they are female.

Adams emphasised the "incredibly complex" system that determines eligibility criteria for women's sports saying "Everyone would love to have a single answer, yes or no. The federations need to make the rules to make sure there is fairness but also the ability for everyone to take part that wants to."

Algeria's Imane Khelif is set to compete in the women's under 66 kg category on Friday while Taiwan's Lin Yu Ting has her first fight in the under 57kg division on Saturday.