1st Trans Man To Compete And Win A Pro Boxing Match

He's the first trans man to fight — and win — a pro boxing match, and he's not finished writing history in the ring.

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00:00I'm a man, even if I'm a trans man, and I deserve the right to compete, just like any other man.

00:19There's nothing no one can say or do that will make me doubt who I am, because I know who I am,

00:26and I'm worth risking all that ridicule to be myself.

00:40When I was going through puberty, I was dealing with a lot of gender dysphoria,

00:44basically feeling like my body was turning into something that did not align

00:48with the image in my head. I really looked up to the masculinity of fighters,

00:52and I told myself when I turned 16, I was going to start boxing.

01:15It's been difficult finding opponents throughout my amateur career, and then in my pro career,

01:20people assume that anyone male assigned at birth will defeat anyone female assigned at birth.

01:26The two things that people throw at me is that I'm a girl and therefore weaker,

01:30or when I win, like I did December 8th, they say things like, oh, well,

01:34it's not fair, that girl was roided up. So, you know, you can never make people happy.

01:39There needs to be more conversations in gyms about where are trans people's places in this sport.

01:46I'm really hopeful that when these conversations happen,

01:49that people are going to be more accepting in boxing of us.