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Transgender MMA fighter!
If anything could get me interested in MMA, it'd be this:
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/mma--fallon-fox--transgender-mma-fighter-controversy-043035215.html
Through adolescence growing up in the Toledo, Ohio area, the confusion and doubts and, indeed, fear mounted. She was male, yet felt female. She tried to be a straight man, even fathering a child at 19, but nothing was right. After a stint in the military, she returned to find the stress of not feeling comfortable in her own body nearly overwhelm her. Finally she scoured the Internet for an answer and there it was: she was transgender....
Fallon Fox is a survivor. That isn’t how many see her, but that’s the truth. The road to realization for transgender people is incredibly lonely and difficult. It is a trail lined with casualties. Suicide. Depression. Drugs. Alcoholism. There’s no way to even count everyone suffering from identity issues – so many just internalize the pain and destroy themselves quietly, their struggles unknown to even those closest to them....
While the 37-year-old fighter understands the questions and concerns from fans who find it unfair for a one-time man to fight a woman, she can only point to the science of a sex-change, about estrogen and testosterone levels, and about how when it's long after surgery being a transgender can actually be a hindrance, not a help physically....
“I do not have a competitive advantage when fighting another woman,” Fox said. “I hear that from the average person, but they haven’t looked into it.”
Fallon Fox is a survivor. That isn’t how many see her, but that’s the truth. The road to realization for transgender people is incredibly lonely and difficult. It is a trail lined with casualties. Suicide. Depression. Drugs. Alcoholism. There’s no way to even count everyone suffering from identity issues – so many just internalize the pain and destroy themselves quietly, their struggles unknown to even those closest to them....
While the 37-year-old fighter understands the questions and concerns from fans who find it unfair for a one-time man to fight a woman, she can only point to the science of a sex-change, about estrogen and testosterone levels, and about how when it's long after surgery being a transgender can actually be a hindrance, not a help physically....
“I do not have a competitive advantage when fighting another woman,” Fox said. “I hear that from the average person, but they haven’t looked into it.”
