Earlier this year, USA Boxing announced that transgender women can compete in the female category given a few conditions such as hormone levels and the completion of gender surgery. And one former women’s boxer and current elite women’s boxing coach is shocked by the decision.
Cary Williams is a former female competitive boxer and a current Olympic-level boxing coach, and she opened up about the decision from USA Boxing, claiming that she “could not believe” the organization would allow transgender athletes to compete.
“When I heard that they were allowing transgender people to box women, I could not believe it,” Williams told Fox News Digital this week. “I know it’s been going on in a lot of sports, which is not right on any level. But when you’re talking about people punching each other in the face, in the body, in the head, I really was surprised.”
Williams recalled having her ribs fractured while sparring with a teenage boy. She said that she “couldn’t imagine” getting hit by a man who has transitioned into a woman, saying that it could be “just deadly.”
“I couldn’t imagine, you know, being hit by a grown man,” Williams said. “So, yeah, that experience, it takes me to this whole other level of thought, you know, thinking if they’re really going to allow men to go in there and box with women. That is just deadly.”
Williams told Fox News that she never thought in a “million years” that USA Boxing would make this decision.
[Fox News]
