World Boxing Council to rethink ban on transgender girls

The World Boxing Council introduced Tuesday that it might rethink the topic of transgender girls in boxing at its subsequent conference.

The WBC, thought-about by many to be the premier physique for skilled boxing, gathers yearly to handle main points within the sport, and one of many subjects to headline the upcoming assembly is transgender boxing.

Transgender individuals collaborating in fight sports activities is a controversial subject however one which must be addressed as soon as extra, in response to an announcement launched by the WBC.

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"It is argued that transgender girls have an unfair benefit over cisgender girls in aggressive sports activities and should endanger them, attributable to variations in human physiology, and that these variations should not sufficiently reversed by transgender hormone therapies," the assertion learn.

"One other opinion sector argues that medically prescribed puberty blockers and estrogen, suppress testosterone ranges and scale back muscle mass in transgender girls, decreasing potential aggressive benefit."

Loyalty, equity, and integrity are the core values of the WBC, in response to the assertion.

"We elevate boxing and defend the well being and well-being of all boxers as our primary precedence," the WBC mentioned. "We're dedicated to defending human rights, eradicating discrimination and serving to those that want it most. We consider that boxing is for everybody."

In 2020, WBC President Mauricio Sulaiman shot down the concept of transgender boxing, in response to a report.

"Transgender just isn't accepted as a result of there is a distinction between a person and a lady," he mentioned on the time.

"The WBC doesn't settle for transgender boxing. There's solely female and male, there is not any in between. ... Folks say it must be the identical – so that you imply we've to do being pregnant exams for males as nicely?"