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Transgender male boxer Patricio Manuel makes history with a win in his pro debut
LATimes ^ | December 8, 2018

Posted on 12/09/2018 4:26:30 PM PST by SMGFan

An emotional six-year journey proved worth every step for Patricio Manuel on Saturday when he climbed into the ring at the Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio to become the first transgender male boxer in U.S. history.

Twelve minutes later he climbed out with a win in his professional debut, pounding out a unanimous decision over Mexican super-featherweight Hugo Aguilar.

“I wouldn’t trade any of it. It was worth everything I went through to get to this point,” Manuel said. “I’m a professional boxer now.”

He added: “The best part of tonight — once I got to the arena and starting getting ready, get the adrenaline rushing, step through those ropes, [greet] my opponent — I loved it all.”

Manuel, 33, fought in the 2012 Olympic trials as a female, then months later began the long transition to male. It was a trip that involved surgery and hormone treatments, an endless trail of red tape to get licensed and the loss of a coach and a training facility when neither proved willing to work with Manuel after she became a he.

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To: SMGFan

At UK Daily Mail there is a photo of this boxer and he looks masculine enough. His female breasts are gone, that area is flat. Due to hormones? He also has a beard.


21 posted on 12/09/2018 6:06:41 PM PST by dennisw
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To: SMGFan

Not all history should be made.


22 posted on 12/09/2018 6:16:17 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: dennisw

seen Chastity Bono recently?


23 posted on 12/09/2018 6:20:12 PM PST by SMGFan
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To: nickedknack

this is not as odorous as a man pretending to be a woman to crash female sports......


24 posted on 12/09/2018 6:53:37 PM PST by cherry (official troll)
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To: SMGFan

This is a female pumped full of male hormones - who knows how much she has in her? If the male fighter supplemented with testosterone or steroids, he’d be suspended.


25 posted on 12/09/2018 6:54:55 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: SMGFan
An emotional six-year journey proved worth every step for Patricio Manuel on Saturday when he climbed into the ring at the Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio to become the first transgender male boxer in U.S. history.

Congratulations, ma'am (you can never be a "sir").

26 posted on 12/09/2018 6:58:57 PM PST by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: SMGFan

Does Chastity Bono have a beard now?

http://www.purepeople.com/media/chastity-bono-est-aujourd-hui-devenue_m307494


27 posted on 12/09/2018 7:04:23 PM PST by dennisw
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To: SMGFan

Manuel still has two x chromosomes.

a woman beat a man.

period. full stop. end of story.


28 posted on 12/09/2018 7:15:43 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: Robert DeLong

Hello, I wanted to see if you guys could help me find a video of a WMMA bout that took place at Lucky star Casino, Concho, Oklahoma in 2010. “Red River Rivalry C3 fights”. Liz Carmouche vs Valentina Shevchenko. Valentina Shevchenko is the new UFC Flyweight champion- I haven’t had much luck in finding it.. Thx


29 posted on 12/09/2018 7:29:25 PM PST by chicken head
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To: SMGFan

So she gets to take steroids?


30 posted on 12/09/2018 7:34:35 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committtee)
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To: SMGFan

I find it interesting that what is never mentioned in any of these types of stories that 20 years from now most of these people will be suffering massive health problems from taking these hormones. Cancers will be way above average, and that will only be part of the story.

No one seems to think that matters in the least.


31 posted on 12/09/2018 7:37:42 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60's....You weren't really there)
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To: chicken head
Liz Carmouche vs Valentina Shevchenko - Date: Sep 30, 2010 - Location: Lucky Star Casino, Concho, Oklahoma, United States

ESPN - Liz Carmouche Fight Results

Cage Rank

Google Search Results

32 posted on 12/09/2018 8:21:41 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: DuncanWaring

If you say so. I wouldn’t know since I really don’t watch the sport myself. 8>)


33 posted on 12/09/2018 8:23:22 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: grey_whiskers
Hugo got beat by a Giiiiiirl...

A girl pumped full of steroids. As others have pointed out, that is supposed to be illegal, but I guess it's OK if it furthers the homosexual agenda.

34 posted on 12/10/2018 3:30:03 AM PST by TwelveOfTwenty (Prayers for our country and President Trump)
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To: SMGFan

The title should read, Woman Taking Hormones Makes History in Her Pro Debut. Because every cell in her body is female, and will be until she is dead.


35 posted on 12/10/2018 4:43:50 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: Ge0ffrey

I also think that they should give back the Olympic medals taken away from the East German and Soviet women who were caught doping with testosterone.


36 posted on 12/10/2018 4:48:29 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: SMGFan

Seriously, is this person a male or a female?


37 posted on 12/10/2018 5:47:11 AM PST by ThePatriotsFlag (We are getting even more than we voted for.)
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To: SMGFan
Do I have this right? A former amateur female boxer has transgendered to a male and then won a boxing match against a professional male boxer who hadn't boxed in a year and whose professional record was 0 and 6?

Look at this from the perspective of the "professional boxer". He lost all six of his pro fights and then is matched against a former woman and loses. I think the story here is that this "pro boxer" needs to take up another line of work. Perhaps in the last year, while he wasn't doing any boxing, he has done just that.

38 posted on 12/10/2018 7:07:29 PM PST by William Tell
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