Ebanie Bridges has vowed that she would never fight a trans boxer.
Bridges, 36, is 9-1 as a professional boxer and is the current IBF bantamweight champion.
She was asked in an interview with BitcoinCasinos if she would ever have a match with a trans woman.
“No, never,” she answered, as covered by Fox News.
“I think it’s wrong, especially in boxing. I think in all sport. I just think a lot of women in sports that are breaking records weren’t originally women and in a sport where you are trying to hurt the other person. You’re born (a) man. I don’t care what you say, how many hormones you’re taking, you’re still born (a) man.
“It’s like saying all of a sudden Mike Tyson wants to be a girl now and he goes and fights you – no way! And how do you measure it? ‘They don’t look really masculine so that’s OK,’ No. I even spar with boys or guys smaller than me and they are ‘hell strong.’ So, I think no. Especially in combat sports and general in sports. Think about a female wanting to be the best in her sport and then she has to compete against men who’ve transitioned obviously into women and that takes the whole feminine side.”
Bridges said that she has not observed many instances of biological women who transition to male and compete against men.
“And then you got women who transition into men that go against the men, which never happens,” she said.
“Very rarely. It’s always the other way around. There’s no girls that go, ‘I’m transitioning because I feel like I’m male’ and they go into men’s sport. They don’t do that. It’s only the other way around. And if it was the other way around, for example, in combat sports, unless she’s taking a lot of testosterone and steroids – which is banned – you’re gonna get blasted by men.”
Bridges has made headlines not only for her success in the ring, but for wearing provocative outfits to weigh-ins.
“So to people that say you can’t do it, I just f–king did it,” Bridges told The Post last year. “Welcome to the new world. Welcome to ‘the Blonde Bomber effect’ because there’s going to be plenty more of them, because I see it — all the girls coming out, putting in the effort, putting the lingerie on and making themselves more pretty, not playing it down, not being rough because f–k it, why not?”
She suggested a new category of athletics, specifically for transitioners.
The issue of trans women in sports has been roiling since 2021, after Lia Thomas had transitioned to female and began dominating the competition.
Thomas had previously competed for three years at the University of Pennsylvania on the men’s swim team, before taking a gap year while transitioning.
ESPN personalities Sage Steele and Sam Ponder have previously spoken against the idea of trans women competing in women’s sports, as has women’s tennis legend Martina Navratilova.