Male-born boxers will be able to compete against female opponents and confirm their “gender identities” in USA Boxing beginning in the new year. The decision has been met with strong opposition from a number of women’s boxing celebrities.
The Olympic and sport’s governing organization, USA Boxing, has unveiled a ground-breaking transgender policy. Due to this ruling, biological men are now able to fight in boxing matches alongside women.
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To compete, fighters will have to meet a variety of standards. They must first state that they are over the age of eighteen and identify as female. In order to be eligible, they must also maintain a testosterone level below a specific threshold and have had “gender reassignment surgery.”
Although the term “gender reassignment surgery” is not well defined, many transgender people choose not to have the operation.
“The purpose of this policy is to provide fairness and safety for all boxers,” Statesman Boxing provided an explanation.
A number of boxers and pundits have voiced strong opposition to the proposal, including True Geordie, a U.K.-based observer, who drew attention to the inherent injustice towards female competitors. Geordie began by saying that he personally had no problem using transgender people’s “preferred pronouns” to refer to them. “I’ve definitely got a problem with people potentially killing people by having a ridiculous unfair advantage on the opponent.”
“I don’t care what the scenario is. Whether you’re cheating through drugs going into a boxing fight, whether you know you have had 20 years of added testosterone, whether you’re using things in your gloves, I don’t care what it is. This is not fair, and that’s the point,” He went on to say that it has “nothing to do with discrimination.”
The action has also been criticized by boxing celebrity Ebanie Bridges, who described it as “wrong on so many levels.”
“I will never agree to this… it’s bad enough having trans women breaking records in other sports like track and field, swimming and power lifting but it’s a bit different to them breaking our skulls in combat sports where the aim is to HURT YOU not just break a record…however I think it’s wrong in ALL SPORT,” Bridges posted something on X.
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