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WBC to allow transgender fighters in boxing in 2023 and will create new category

WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman has revealed that his sanctioning body intend to create a new transgender boxing category in 2023. The debate over transgender athletes has swept multiple sports in …
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WBC to allow transgender fighters in boxing in 2023 and will create new separate category as president Mauricio Sulaiman insists: ‘We will never allow a transgender born a man to fight a woman’​


WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman has revealed that his sanctioning body intend to create a new transgender boxing category in 2023.

The debate over transgender athletes has swept multiple sports in recent years, with questions raised over the fairness of allowing transgender women, who were born male, to compete against cisgender (not transgender) women, who were born female.

In boxing, this issue is yet to come to the fore on a major public scale, however the WBC are anticipating that this could happen soon.

As such, they intend to set up an independent category of leagues and tournaments and will issue a ‘global call’ for transgender boxers who want to compete against one another.

Suliaman is adamant that transgender fighters will not be allowed to compete against cisgender (not transgender) fighters.


He plans for the WBC to use the ‘at birth’ rule, which would ensure that a transgender boxer who was born male will only be able to compete against another transgender boxer who was born male.

Sulaiman explained to the Telegraph: “We are going to put out a global call for those who are interested in 2023 and we will set up the protocols, start consultation and most likely create a league and a tournament.

“It is the time to do this, and we are doing this because of safety and inclusion.

“We have been the leaders in rules for women’s boxing – so the dangers of a man fighting a woman will never happen because of what we are going to put in place.

“In boxing, a man fighting a woman must never be accepted regardless of gender change.

“There should be no grey area around this, and we want to go into it with transparency and the correct decisions.

“Woman to man or man to woman transgender change will never be allowed to fight a different gender by birth.”

Sulaiman added: “We are creating a set of rules and structures so that transgender boxing can take place, as they fully deserve to if they want to box.

“We do not yet know the numbers that there are out there, but we’re opening a universal registration in 2023, so that we can understand the boxers that are out there – and we’ll start from there.”

The WBC president concluded: “We will not allow – ever – a transgender born a man to fight a woman, who was born a woman.

“But we are creating a set of rules and structures so that transgender boxing can take place, as they fully deserve to if they want to box.
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25 years ago Oscar De La Hoya would've joined the ranks for sure, maybe Ryan Garcia will join in 2023 :mjlol:
 
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I’ve been telling nyggas. Tank would have been better off at the Mayweather Gym bytching and complaining about Floyd and Leonard every camp because they’re trying to keep his dumb ass out of trouble.

Now he’s on his own. He got what he wanted. It’s time to be a man.
 
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