{"id":1790122,"date":"2022-12-29T21:18:09","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T02:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1790122"},"modified":"2022-12-29T21:18:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T02:18:19","slug":"transgender-boxing-category-to-be-introduced-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/transgender-boxing-category-to-be-introduced-in-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Transgender boxing to be introduced in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftransgender-boxing-category-to-be-introduced-in-2023%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1790122&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Officials from the World Boxing Council said Thursday in a report that they would create a new category within the international professional prizefighting organisation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/transgender\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">transgender<\/a> Fighters in 2023<\/p>\n<p>Mauricio Sulaiman, the president of council, stated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/boxing\/2022\/12\/29\/exclusive-boxing-introduce-new-transgender-category\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Telegraph<\/a> he believes it\u2019s time for the sport to address issues of \u201csafety and inclusion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe 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,\u201d Sulaiman stated.<\/p>\n<p>In 1963, then President of Mexico, Adolfo L\u00f3pez Mateos, established the organization with 11 other countries \u2014 including the United States \u2014 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wbc\/history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reads<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Sulaiman along with officials from the council work together to promote boxing. \u201cas well as to protect the health and well-being of all boxers \u2014 above any interest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sulaiman added that the nearly 60-year-old organization created the rules for women\u2019s boxing \u201cso the dangers of a man fighting a woman will never happen because of what we are going to put in place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn boxing, a man fighting a woman must never be accepted regardless of gender change,\u201d the council\u2019s president said. \u201cThere should be no grey area around this, and we want to go into it with transparency and the correct decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWoman to man or man to woman transgender change will never be allowed to fight a different gender by birth,\u201d He said.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, Council officials will create rules and structures for transgender boxes.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201cat birth\u201d Sulaiman described the policy as not allowing a woman born to a man to fight another woman who has transitioned to him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the moment, this is hypothetical, but we can see it coming, and we are looking at our transgender policy,\u201d Robert Smith, General Secretary of the board, stated. \u201cIt 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Natasha Jonas from Liverpool is the world&#8217;s light middleweight champion. She stated in an interview that the outlet has been informed by officials of the organization. \u201cjumping the gun, but in the right way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt should be quite clear \u2014 it is unfair in a combat sport, and it is dangerous,\u201d Jonas said. \u201cI think it should be the same in any sport \u2014 but in combat sports, it is dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jonas believes the move is rational.<\/p>\n<p>Jonas, a female boxer said that she is fine with transgender boxing. If a male becomes a female boxer, he shouldn&#8217;t compete as a woman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf a man transitioning to a woman fights a born woman, there are definitely physiological disadvantages for the female,\u201d Jonas added. \u201cIf you\u2019ve been through puberty either man to woman or woman to man \u2014 it\u2019s clear what should be right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the outlet, Sulaiman also reached the same conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe 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,\u201d He said. \u201cWe do not yet know the numbers that there are out there, but we\u2019re opening a universal registration in 2023 so that we can understand the boxers that are out there \u2014 and we\u2019ll start from there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Boxing Council officials said in a report Thursday that the international professional prizefighting organization would create a new category for transgender fighters in 2023. Mauricio Sulaiman, the council president, told The Telegraph he believes it\u2019s time for the sport to address issues of \u201csafety and inclusion.\u201d \u201cWe are going to put out a global &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":1790125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[8016,12475,6202,5615,4019,6195],"class_list":["post-1790122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-8016","tag-boxing","tag-daily","tag-introduced","tag-transgender","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1790122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1790125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1790122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1790122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1790122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}