Former MMA World Champion Issues Massive Challenge to ‘the 10 Toughest Trans Men in the World’
Few topics engender more impassioned takes than the topic of transgender athletes in sports. Few sports better highlight the innate physiological differences between men and women than mixed martial arts. Perhaps due to…
Few topics engender more impassioned takes than the topic of Transgender athletes in Sports.
Few Sports better highlight the innate physiological differences between men and women than mixed martial arts.
Perhaps due to those two facts, former MMA champion Jake Shields issued an open challenge Thursday on social media to prove a long-simmering point about gender and Sports.
“Since trans men are real men I would like to challenge the 10 toughest trans men in the world to a fight,” Shields tweeted, before adding that he would be willing the run the gauntlet.
“I fight them with no training camp and no rest between each fight,” he said.
As a point of clarification, despite the nomenclature confusion, “trans men” are people who were born female — also known as women.
Shields continued on Twitter, doubling down on this Transgender