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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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.
Not all history should be made.
seen Chastity Bono recently?
this is not as odorous as a man pretending to be a woman to crash female sports......
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.
Congratulations, ma'am (you can never be a "sir").
Does Chastity Bono have a beard now?
http://www.purepeople.com/media/chastity-bono-est-aujourd-hui-devenue_m307494
Manuel still has two x chromosomes.
a woman beat a man.
period. full stop. end of story.
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So she gets to take steroids?
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.
If you say so. I wouldn’t know since I really don’t watch the sport myself. 8>)
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.
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.
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.
Seriously, is this person a male or a female?
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.
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