<p>World Boxing Council officials said in a report Thursday that the international professional prizefighting organization would create a new category for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgender</a> fighters in 2023.</p>
<p>Mauricio Sulaiman, the council president, told <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/boxing/2022/12/29/exclusive-boxing-introduce-new-transgender-category/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Telegraph</a> he believes it&#8217;s time for the sport to address issues of &#8220;safety and inclusion.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We are going to put out a global call for those who are interested in 2023, and we will set up the protocols, start consultation and most likely create a league and a tournament,&#8221; Sulaiman said.</p>
<p>In 1963, then President of Mexico, Adolfo López Mateos, established the organization with 11 other countries — including the United States — as an initiative to create an organization that would unify all the commissions of the world and develop the expansion of boxing, the WBC website <a href="https://wbcboxing.com/en/wbc/history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reads</a>.</p>
<p>Today, Sulaiman and council officials work to enhance boxing, &#8220;as well as to protect the health and well-being of all boxers — above any interest.&#8221;</p>
<p>Sulaiman added that the nearly 60-year-old organization created the rules for women&#8217;s boxing &#8220;so the dangers of a man fighting a woman will never happen because of what we are going to put in place.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;In boxing, a man fighting a woman must never be accepted regardless of gender change,&#8221; the council&#8217;s president said. &#8220;There should be no grey area around this, and we want to go into it with transparency and the correct decisions.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Woman to man or man to woman transgender change will never be allowed to fight a different gender by birth,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Council officials would reportedly create a set of rules and structures for transgender boxing to take place.</p>
<p>The British Boxing Board of Control told The Telegraph that the organization confirmed it would also examine its transgender policy while committing to adopting the &#8220;at birth&#8221; policy, which Sulaiman detailed as never allowing a woman who transitioned to a man to fight a woman who was born a woman.</p>
<p>&#8220;At the moment, this is hypothetical, but we can see it coming, and we are looking at our transgender policy,&#8221; General Secretary Robert Smith of the board said. &#8220;It is what you are born as, as rugby union does. When it does [happen], we intend to be fully prepared. Medical and, perhaps more importantly, legal considerations will have to be taken into account.&#8221;</p>
<p>Natasha Jonas, the light middleweight world champion from Liverpool, said in an interview with the outlet that organization officials are &#8220;jumping the gun, but in the right way.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It should be quite clear — it is unfair in a combat sport, and it is dangerous,&#8221; Jonas said. &#8220;I think it should be the same in any sport — but in combat sports, it is dangerous.&#8221;</p>
<p>Jonas said the move from the organization makes sense.</p>
<p>As a female boxer, Jonas said she has no problem with transgender boxing. However, if a male transitions to a female, he should not compete as a woman.</p>
<p>&#8220;If a man transitioning to a woman fights a born woman, there are definitely physiological disadvantages for the female,&#8221; Jonas added. &#8220;If you&#8217;ve been through puberty either man to woman or woman to man — it&#8217;s clear what should be right.&#8221;</p>
<p>Sulaiman reached the same conclusion, the outlet reported.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are creating a set of rules and structures so that transgender boxing can take place, as they fully deserve to if they want to box,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We do not yet know the numbers that there are out there, but we&#8217;re opening a universal registration in 2023 so that we can understand the boxers that are out there — and we&#8217;ll start from there.&#8221;</p>

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