From Jezebel: http://jezebel.com/5989623/mma-fighter-fallon-fox-may-lose-her-license-after-revealing-shes-a-trans-woman
It’s been about a year and a half since the Caster Semenya clusterfuck, during which Olympic silver medal sprinter Semenya was forced to undergo gender testing in 2009 because her athletic skill led some to believe she was intersex (she was later cleared for competing in the women’s category).
And we learned something from that, I hope, besides the fact that you better watch the fuck out if you’re not a female athlete who looks “like a girl”, and plays sports “like a girl.”
Female MMA 5-0 featherweight champ Fallon Fox told Sports Illustrated this week that she underwent male-to-female sexual reassignment surgery back in 2006. Although experts say that the level of testosterone that Fallon’s at by now is obviously significantly lower than the male levels—even some of females’—the fairness of Fox’s competing in the female category has come into question, and her fighting license may be revoked.
Last year, the Association of Boxing Commissions drafted a transgender policy, but this is the first time it’s been needed: it requires Fox to provide her complete medical history as well as a board certified endocrinologist to testify that she’s been on hormone therapy for 2 years or more.
Others are arguing, as Sports On Earth explains, the same gender binary necessary to have segregated male and female athletics, which ultimately empowers female athletes, is the main case against Fox:
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See Also:
Bloody Elbow: Leading sex reassignment physicians weigh in on Fallon Fox
