Here’s a conundrum: boxer Rob Newbiggin, a former sparring partner of Ricky Hatton’s, is preparing for a sex change, and will fight as a woman when it is over.
The 44-year-old Southport resident will soon become “Mercedes,” he told The Sun.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2544087/Sex-swap-boxer-in-battle-of-the-sexes.html
Newbiggin, who has boxed for 20 years, now hopes to fight in the female ranks. Newbiggin has the physical characteristics of a man, but was born with high levels of estrogen that make his gender identity less than clear.
“My dad said that I had to act like a man because people wouldn’t accept me as anything else, so I started boxing at the YMCA at about the age of 12.
“He was trying to protect me. I didn’t find out I was adopted until I was 16 and then about how I was born, but then it all starting making sense to me.”
In addition to boxing, Newbiggin aims work as a model after the transformation is complete. Whatever next ?
