Wed Aug 17, 2022 – 7:57 am EDT
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (LifeSiteNews) – The World Boxing Council (WBC) has announced a ban on gender-confused men competing against women as “a transgender woman combatant may have an unfair advantage.”
While first saying it “firmly and unequivocally supports transgender rights and recognizes the gender identity of an individual athlete” and that it will “continue to champion to protect transgender individuals against discrimination at their workplace, in employment, education and access to healthcare,” the boxing association explained why it cannot allow men to compete against women.
“A combat sport bout should occur between two equally matched competitors. At present there is no consensus whether a bout between a transgender woman against a cisgender (biological) woman is a fair bout between two equally matched competitors,” the WBC wrote. “Metric such as testosterone level less than 10 nanomoles per liter (achieved by using testosterone suppression medication in the transgender woman), in isolation is inadequate to ensure fairness at the time of the bout.”
“It can be argued that by the time a transgender woman combatant launches her professional career she has already gone through male puberty thus conferring her with the musculature
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