Boxing champ has brutal message for transgender athletes

A women’s boxing champion is doubling down on earlier comments against transgender women participating in women’s sports.

IBF women’s bantamweight champion Ebanie Bridges said in June she thinks it’s “wrong” for transgender women to compete against biological women — especially in combat sports.

In an interview with UK-based Betting Sites, Bridges revealed she got “zero backlash” for her comments, saying all she heard was support.

“Everyone’s so scared to say anything,” Bridges said. “But no matter what you say people are gonna jump and turn on you. I think the reality is – I’m right, and it’s true.

“People are obviously, scared and I think with me speaking up with the kind of person that I am, such a big name in the sport and not just in the sport but in the general world, it gives other people the OK to speak up as well.”

Bridges said transgender people should be allowed in sports, but it was about “segregating women to men to trans.”

“It’s that simple because we’re not the [expletive] same. There’s a reason men don’t fight women.

“I don’t care if you’ve got boobies, you were still born a man.”

Bridges last fought in December and won via TKO to retain her title against Shannon O’Connell.

[Betting Sites]