Boxing champ Ebanie Bridges sounds off on trans women in female sports: 'I think it's wrong'

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Australian boxer Ebanie Bridges, the IBF female bantamweight champion, on Tuesday weighed in on the recent emergence of transgender women in female sports.

Bridges was asked in an interview with Bitcoin Casinos whether she would ever fight against a transgender woman.

"No, never," she replied. "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.

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Ebanie Bridges celebrates after defeating Shannon O’Connell during their IBF Women's World Bantamweight title fight at First Direct Arena on Dec. 10, 2022 in Leeds, England. (Nigel Roddis/Getty Images)

"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. 

"And then you got women who transition into men that go against the men, which never happens. 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