Imane Khelif delivers another K.O. on JKR as Vogue Arabia cover star

Khelif is on the cover of Vogue Arabia's November 2024 issue. For the cover, she's dressed in all black and has her hair slicked back.

In one image, she wears a large, black, leather jacket, and in the other, she's wearing a women's power suit. And let me say: she looks great!

"Imane Khelif: Knockout of a Champion," the headline reads.

"Despite winning the gold medal, that one event felt like a whole lifetime," Khelif says about the transphobic hate in the cover story. "The experiences were multiple and varied within one isolated incident. I was able to overcome it all thanks to my faith in God, in myself, and my dream. Without such challenges, I would never have become a champion."

Khelif, a female boxer from Algeria, was competing at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics when a report from a disgraced Russian boxing authority was re-circulated — the document claiming that Khelif had failed an unspecified "gender eligibility test" without providing evidence.

Around the world, transphobes, TERFS, and racists quickly jumped on the rumors and inaccurately claimed that Khelif was a man who had entered the Olympics so that "he" could beat up women.

But Khelif was born as a baby girl, was raised as a girl, and has never identified as anything other than a cisgender woman.

She overcame the hate, as well as all of her opponents, and won the gold medal in boxing. Since the Olympics ended, Khelif filed an online harassment complaint against several public figures like Elon Musk and J.K. Rowling.

Now, she's also a Vogue cover model. We stan!