Who is Lin Yu-Ting? The Taiwanese Olympic boxer deemed to have male chromosomes

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Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-Ting was thrust into the middle of a gender eligibility controversy before the 2024 Paris Olympics and a fight against Uzbekistan fighter Sitora Turdibekova.

Lin has not been in a firestorm like Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is now, but Lin was also deemed to have male chromosomes in the same 2023 Women’s World Championships tournament in which Khelif competed. Both fighters were disqualified from the tournament.

Here’s what to know about Lin and the issue.

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Gold medalist Lin Yu-Ting of Taiwan is shown during the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, on Oct. 5, 2023. (ISHARA S. KODIKARA/AFP via Getty Images)

Lin is a 28-year-old boxer from Taipei County, Taiwan, and has been competing in female boxing matches since middle school, according to Taiwan News.

Lin reportedly started to turn a hobby into a career to "protect her mother from domestic abuse."

Lin has competed in the women’s bantamweight, women’s flyweight and women’s featherweight divisions.

Taiwan's Lin Yu-Ting celebrates after defeating Kazakhstan's Karina Ibragimova during the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, on Oct. 5, 2023. (ISHARA S. KODIKARA/AFP via Getty Images)

Lin has been competing at the amateur championship level since 2017. Lin won a gold medal in the 2017 Asian Championships in Ho Chi Minh City against Vietnam’s Le Thi Bang in the bantamweight division. Lin was 21 at the time.

Lin then moved to the AIBA World Championships in 2018 and won a bantamweight gold. Lin also won gold in the 2019 Asian Championships, the 2022 Asian Games and the 2022 World Championships.

Lin fought in the 2020 Tokyo