The World Boxing Council (WBC) has announced a new category for transgender boxers that it says it created to insure 'safety.'
The World Boxing Council has announced a new category for transgender boxers to ensure the “safety” of competitors.on Thursday that the new rules will go into effect in 2023 and are meant to make sure female boxers are safe.
Sulaiman added that WBC intended to ensure that “the dangers of a man fighting a woman will never happen.” The WBC has added birth gender rules that maintain that males can only fight other males, and men who claim to have “transitioned” to being women can only fight other transgender women. The same will be true for female boxers who claim to be transgender males.
“There should be no grey area around this, and we want to go into it with transparency and the correct decisions,” he said, opposing the idea that transgender “women” should be allowed to fight natural-born women.
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