Transgender boxing to be introduced in 2023

Officials from the World Boxing Council said Thursday in a report that they would create a new category within the international professional prizefighting organisation. transgender Fighters in 2023

Mauricio Sulaiman, the president of council, stated The Telegraph he believes it’s time for the sport to address issues of “safety and inclusion.”

“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,” Sulaiman stated.

In 1963, then President of Mexico, Adolfo López Mateos, established the organization with 11 other countries — including the United States — as an initiative to create an organization that would unify all the commissions of the world and develop the expansion of boxing, the WBC website reads.

Today, Sulaiman along with officials from the council work together to promote boxing. “as well as to protect the health and well-being of all boxers — above any interest.”

Sulaiman added that the nearly 60-year-old organization created the 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,” the council’s president said. “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,” He said.

According to reports, Council officials will create rules and structures for transgender boxes.

The Telegraph was informed by the British Boxing Board of Control that it had confirmed to The Telegraph that it would also review its transgender policy and committed to adopting the “at birth” Sulaiman described the policy as not allowing a woman born to a man to fight another woman who has transitioned to him.

“At the moment, this is hypothetical, but we can see it coming, and we are looking at our transgender policy,” Robert Smith, General Secretary of the board, stated. “It is what you are born as, as rugby union does. When it does [happen], we intend to be fully prepared. Medical and, perhaps more importantly, legal considerations will have to be taken into account.”

Natasha Jonas from Liverpool is the world’s light middleweight champion. She stated in an interview that the outlet has been informed by officials of the organization. “jumping the gun, but in the right way.”

“It should be quite clear — it is unfair in a combat sport, and it is dangerous,” Jonas said. “I think it should be the same in any sport — but in combat sports, it is dangerous.”

Jonas believes the move is rational.

Jonas, a female boxer said that she is fine with transgender boxing. If a male becomes a female boxer, he shouldn’t compete as a woman.

“If a man transitioning to a woman fights a born woman, there are definitely physiological disadvantages for the female,” Jonas added. “If you’ve been through puberty either man to woman or woman to man — it’s clear what should be right.”

According to the outlet, Sulaiman also reached the same conclusion.

“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,” He said. “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.”

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