Lauren Boebert rages over USA Boxing’s trans policy even though she clearly doesn’t understand it

USA Boxing recently unveiled one of the strictest policies yet regulating the participation of transgender competitors, but the anti-trans right is still up in arms over the fact that it creates a path for trans people to compete as their lived gender at all.

On New Year’s Eve, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) wrote on X that the new policy means USA Boxing is “going to allow men to beat women up in a boxing ring,” even though the policy doesn’t involve men competing at all. She called it “pathetic and disgusting,” despite the fact that the policy makes it incredibly difficult for trans women to participate in women’s competitions.

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She raged at the gay icon for supporting her Democratic opponent.

Let’s call this what it is.

They’re going to allow men to beat women up in a boxing ring.

This is pathetic and disgusting. https://t.co/xsqBWeI1VG

— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) December 31, 2023 Never Miss a Beat

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The policy first states that everyone under the age of 18 must compete as their sex assigned at birth. It then says that both trans women and men who are over 18 can only compete as their actual gender if they have had “gender reassignment surgery.” Following surgery, they then must meet stringent hormone requirements for a period of four years (submitting the results of quarterly hormone tests throughout that time) before they are ever allowed to compete.

And Boebert wasn’t the only one to suggest that men will be able to pretend to be trans women in order to compete, despite the strict standards.

“I will never agree to this,” Australian professional boxer Ebanie Bridges wrote on X as part of a viciously anti-trans rant, “it’s bad enough having trans women breaking records in other sports like track and field, swimming and power lifting but it’s a bit different to them breaking our skulls in combat sports where the aim is to HURT YOU not just break a record… Cutting ur bits off and adding boobs won’t take back the masculine maturity your body has gone thru before you decided u are now a woman.”

This is wrong on so many levels. I will never agree to this… it's bad enough having trans women breaking records in other sports like track and field, swimming and power lifting but it's a bit different to them breaking our skulls in combat sports where the aim is to HURT YOU… https://t.co/a58ADwPvpC

— Blonde Bomber