Sulaiman stated to ESPN, The World Boxing Council, through its medical committee and technical committee, reached a determination after studies and an important talk during the WBC annual convention, an absolute and total confirmation was reached to not allow fights between people born men against people born women regardless of their current gender.
The World Boxing Council, through its medical committee and technical committee, Sulaiman added. That is the primary motivation behind our decision not to permit fights between men and women in order to safeguard women’s boxing as it has always been.
The president of the WBC stated that the process of determining who qualifies for the transgender category will soon begin. The world swimming governing body, FINA, has established a working group to develop an open category.
After it was discovered that FINA was considering creating the open category, both FIFA, the governing body of football, and world athletics announced that they would revise their transgender policies.
The World Boxing Council, one of the four governing bodies for the sport, will introduce a transgender category beginning this year.
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