USA Boxing, the national governing body of the amateur sport, has changed its rules about transgender athletes, releasing new guidelines added to its 2024 rulebook that allows biological men to box against female competitors.
The organization has drawn criticism for allowing so-called trans women to fight biological females in the ring.
Olympic female boxing coach Cary Williams recently told the Daily Signal Podcast the result could mean the death of a female athlete.
Even one man competing against women is “all it takes to do damage; that’s all it takes to kill a woman,” she said. “I’m extremely scared for the safety of our girls and our women in boxing.”
The new transgender policy says minors under the age of 18 “must compete as their birth gender” in weight classes outlined in the rulebook.
However, biological men over the age of 18 can compete in the female category but must first undergo genital reassignment surgery and submit quarterly hormone tests for at least four years following surgery.
Williams told the Daily Signal Podcast that transgender athletes 18 and older are not required to have gone through their transition before puberty, and that is a big problem.
“I mean, already,
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