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. ‘For example, weightlifting has categories by mass, and males lift about 30 per cent heavier than females. They’ll be about 10 to 15 per cent faster at the same height and weight,’ writes Tucker.
In the paper ‘Sexual dimorphism in human arm power and force: implications for sexual selection on fighting ability’ it was found that the power produced during a punch was 162 per cent greater in males than in females, and the least powerful man produced more power than the most powerful woman.
The evidence is clear. Natal males will always have an advantage over females, even if they are the same weight and size.
As well as feeling grateful that the WBC has seen sense, I can’t help but feel despondent that these days the bar on women’s rights and safety is set so low, that it would challenge a world champion limbo dancer.
I have campaigned to end men’s violence against women and girls for more than four decades. During this time, I have heard numerous stories about women sustaining significant brain injuries as a result of domestic abuse. Men are, more often than not, stronger and more physically powerful than women. I have yet to hear of a woman inflicting brain injury on a man during a fist fight.
We need look no further at how bonkers it is to allow men to beat up women in the name of sport than the example of MMA (mixed martial arts) fighter and trans male, Fallon Fox, who previously served in the armed forces. Fox had boasted about injuring his female opponents. Fox was the first openly transgender athlete in MMA history, and his style was so aggressive that Fox sent female competitor Tamikka Brents to the hospital with a broken skull, needing surgical staples. As Fox tweeted: ‘For the record, I knocked two out. One woman’s skull was fractured, the other not. And just so you know, I enjoyed it. See, I love smacking up TEFS (sic) in the cage who talk transphobia nonsense. It’s bliss! Don’t be mad,’ adding winking and kissing lips emoji.
Despite this blatant celebration of violence towards women, there are plenty of men that will defend men competing against women. As GB News presenter Tom Harwood tweeted last year: ‘Trans athletes in any sport should obviously be decided on a case by case basis. It’s entirely possible to be reasonable and individualist about hormone levels, muscle mass etc. Any discriminatory ban or free for all is ludicrous collectivism.’
On reading the news from the WBC, plenty of trans activists will be shouting about ‘bigotry’ and ‘exclusion’. What kind of a world do we live in where anyone with any sense would think it’s perfectly reasonable for a natal male to compete with a female in sports such as boxing? These activists have perhaps convinced themselves that transwomen really are women, and therefore pose no danger. We see this argument used when feminists like me campaign against male sex offenders being placed in the same prisons as vulnerable women, or in hospital wards and refuges. These flat earth theorists are as deluded as they are dangerous.
Also, I am curious about the trans-only category, suggested by the WBC: will these men that identify as women want to compete in separate categories for transwomen, or is it that they want to invade and colonise women’s sports? Is their primary motivation, as well as to be pretty much guaranteed a victory, to be validated as ‘women’?
In its statement, the WBC said, ‘A man fighting a woman must never be accepted regardless of gender change’. Too right. It’s dangerous, and were it to be allowed, would likely cause serious injury and death of female competitors. But what about fairness? Does thatnot matter? Earlier this year, Lia Thomas became the first transgender athlete to be crowned National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) champion, winning the 500-yard freestyle in Georgia, US. Thomas transitioned around his 20th birthday and began competing against women in swimming un 2021 before becoming a national champion. My heart breaks for the young women whose opportunities have been stolen by an ideology.
The fact that WBC had to make a decision, albeit the right one, to condemn mixed sex boxing shows how far down the rabbit hole trans activism has gone. It’s time to end the madness. Trans women are decidedly not women, and no one actually believes this is true.
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