Last year, USA Boxing announced that it would allow transgender women to participate in the female category as long as they met conditions such as hormone levels and the completion of gender surgery. But one boxing veteran was shocked by this decision.
In a recent interview with Fox News, longtime women’s boxer and current Olympic-level boxing coach Cary Williams has obviously become an expert in the field over the years, and she expressed her surprise that USA Boxing would allow transgender boxers 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 thinks that this move from USA Boxing is an emotional response, not one that’s based on “actual reality and science.”
“For individuals to be emotional and base things off of ideology instead of, you know, actual reality and science, It’s beyond my belief,” Williams said. “I can’t really comprehend what goes through their minds. But I’ll tell you what, if they’re going to say that I’m this, that or the other thing, the issue is if somebody decides that they want to transition, a man wants to transition to be a woman, that is a big decision in life, and they can make that decision.
“But when they make that decision, there are consequences that come with that decision. And one of them is that they cannot compete as a woman in the sport of boxing or any other sport. They have to take that into account when they make that decision in their life. I think that is only fair. So, again, it’s just we all make choices in life, and there are consequences of the choices that we make.”
[Fox News]
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