Julie Bindel Julie Bindel

Boxing is right to stop men fighting women

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I hate the fact that I felt a major sense of relief when I saw the news that the World Boxing Council (WBC) has rejected calls from trans-activists to allow male bodied people to compete against females. Rather, they are recommending that a special transgender category is set up, and further, that only male born people can compete with other men.  

In other words, men that identify as women cannot get in the ring with actual women and beat them half to death, all in the name of sport.  

The announcement is a welcome departure from the usual trans activists calls for male transwomen to compete directly against women. But what if a female boxer weighs as much as her male (transwoman) competitor and has massive muscles, trans activists whinge? Why would the transwoman have an unfair advantage?  

Let’s look at what the science says. The exercise physiologist professor Ross Tucker has explained that for any height, males will be stronger, faster, more powerful than females.

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