With the sport of boxing on the decline, USA Boxing has appeared to make a decision that will drive the fans away even more than the recent emergence of celebrity boxing.
Last week, USA Boxing – which is the governing body of the sport in the United States – announced a new transgender policy that allows biological men to compete against biological women. Since the announcement occurred, the governing body of the once super popular sport has been slammed by fans and outsiders alike for its “pathetic and disgusting” decision.
According to the new rules and a report by the New York Post, the new policy – which will be included in the 2024 rule book – states that male boxers who transition to and/or identify as a female can compete in the female category.
Multiple sources including the Post have reported that USA Boxing will be allowing this while regularly testing the “Female” athletes testosterone levels in order to make sure the playing field is “level”.
In order for the biological men to compete in the women's division, they must have under five nanomoles per liter of testosterone in their system for three years prior to their first competition in the “female” category, and their total testosterone levels must be below five nmol/L throughout their period of eligibility. Those competing as men, meanwhile, must show levels about 10 nmol/L for the same period.
The new rules also state that this will only affect those who are 18 and older as those in the under 18 division of boxing will still be forced to participate in the gender group that you were biologically born into.
Many Republican representatives and other important figures within the party made comments about the recent ruling by USA Boxing.
“USA Boxing wants to get women killed,” Constitutional lawyer and former senior legal advisor to the 45th president Donald Trump, Jenna Ellis said about the new policy on her X – formerly known as Twitter – account.
Lauren Boebert, a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Colorado’s Third District, joined Ellis by taking to X and releasing a statement on the new boxing policy.
“Let’s call this what it is,” the Colorado congresswoman wrote. “They’re going to allow men to beat women up in a boxing ring. This is pathetic and disgusting.”
Conservative political commentator Colin Rugg also made a comment by stating that “South Park was right again,” as he shared a GIF of an episode where a character named “Heather” – who is based off of WWE Legend “Macho Man” Randy Savage – claims to be a transgender Multi-Sport athlete (which included boxing) and starts fighting women.
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Bantamweight Champion Ebaine Bridges has been very outspoken against biological men participating in women's sports @DAZNBoxing | Instagram
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Current women's boxing bantamweight champion Ebanie Bridges – who hails from Australia – made a comment slamming the whole woke agenda that has been pushed by liberal backed outlets like CNN and the declining sports media giant ESPN is actually hurting women’s sports instead of helping it as they claim to do.
“I don’t care about ‘political correctness,’” she wrote on X following the news breaking last week. “It’s politically incorrect to have a man fighting a woman… and [I don’t care] that’s exactly what this is… this society is too soft… This is our health and safety. The girls need to stick together or women’s sports in 50 years will be filled with male-born champions.”
Bridges followed up her statement by making another comment on X, essentially doubling down on her previous statement.
“It’s bad enough having trans women breaking records in other sports like track and field, swimming and powerlifting but it’s a bit different to them breaking our skulls in combat sports where the aim is to hurt you, not just break a record.” Bridges said, “It ain’t just about the test levels, what about their bone density and a heap of other biological factors. Cutting your bits off and adding boobs won’t take back the masculine maturity your body has gone through before you decided you are now a woman. #ISaidWhatISaid.”
Bridges was just one of many professional female combat athletes to comment on the situation as current MMA fighter and former unbeaten boxer Claressa Shields and professional boxer Mikaela Mayer also made comments on the new policy.
“This is, I don't know… Not the right decision.” said Shields on her X account.
“By default, this should make trans athletes ineligible for competition. Period,” said Mayer. “Doesn’t matter how you feel about the situation, fact is, it’s illegal and completely disrupts the even playing field that sport works so hard to create.”
“Allowing men into the world of women’s boxing is downright absurd and it shows how the current generation of liberal ideology and the LGBTQIA+ movement in sports is doing way more harm than good to female athletes. The second the first biological female dies, receives a concussion, or suffers a life-altering injury, will the USA Boxing committee then realize the cloddish and dangerous mistake they made.”
This whole movement took to a new level of messed up when a man on the University of Pennsylvania swim team transitioned to a woman, becoming known as Lia Thomas and dominating the sport while also making all the female athletes feel disturbed knowing that a biological man would share a locker room with them as well. This one incident sparked national outrage and the negative effects it has has spread across many sports from basketball, track and field, and even the World of Croquet in recent months.