Claressa Shields Speaks Out: "Transgender Fighters Should Create Their Own League"

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Boxing champion Claressa Shields has sparked controversy with her unfiltered take on transgender athletes in women's boxing. Speaking candidly on the Effective Immediately show, Shields proposed that transgender boxers should compete against each other in their league rather than against "naturally born women." Her comments have ignited a fierce debate about identity, fairness, and the future of women's combat sports.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, y'all.
Question Should transgenderswho want to compete in boxing
create their own league?
Clarissa Shields thinks so.
Let's talk about it.
Yep, yep and yes, peace, family, I hope that you are feeling

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All right, let's get into this.
Female boxing superstar,clarissa shills, made some bold

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statements while talking to djhead and gina views on the
effective immediately showregarding transgender women and
boxing, and what we're going todo is we're going to take a
quick listen to what she said onthe show and then we'll break
down the whole situation.
Check this out.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
What are your thoughts on women who aren't
naturally born as womenparticipating in female sports?
They should go fight againsteach other.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
That's a good fix.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
That's a good, yeah, I am not saying that they
shouldn't be able to do sports,because the way that I love
boxing.
Listen, if you was a man andyou go over to a woman and you
want a box, you should fightagainst another man who trans,
who went over and he won a box.
And the same thing for thewomen Women, if you want to
fight it, if you want to turn itto a man, which you already see

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happening- now but if one wasthe transports a man, you fight
against a man who was who issaying yeah y'all go ahead and
fight against each other.
I don't think that they shouldbe coming to the, to the sport
where women and women fight.
When men and men fight, theyshould build their own little

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thing, their own little leaguewhere they fight each other yes,
decided what.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
I trust folks, and it got people talking.
So first, for some context,clarissa has sparred with men
before and she said she'strained with male fighters and
they respect her.
But she made it clear thatsparring and not competition
there's a difference.
She said she's not out heretrying to prove something by
stepping into a real bout with aman and honestly, she doesn't

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have to, guys.
Her record speaks for itself.
Let's keep it a buck, though.
Now, when someone with aplatform that big speak like
that, people listen and theyreact, because this ain't just
about boxing, it's aboutidentity, fairness in the future
of women's sports.
So shills is saying what a lotof athletes feel but are scared
to say out loud.
So so, once again, guys, we gotto applaud her for that,

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because it takes a lot, you know.
Just go ahead and speak yourpiece.
You know what I mean.
So she's not saying trans womenshouldn't compete.
She's saying they shouldn'tcompete against naturally born
women, or men for that matter.
She believes it creates anunfair playing field, or men for
that matter.
She believes it creates anunfair playing field.
And listen, she's speaking fromthe lens of a fighter who

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trained her whole life todominate in her category.
But here's where we take a stepback, because this is about
safety, respect and whatfairness actually looks like.
So shout out to ClarissaShields for keeping it raw.
Whether you agree or not, shedidn't duck the smoke.
We have to be able to talkabout these things honestly
without immediately beinglabeled someone hateful.

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Now I want to open it up to youall, my listeners.
Let me know what you think inthe comments.
Do we protect the integrity ofwomen's sports or sports in
general, by creating separatedivisions, like Shills suggested
, or is that just another way ofpushing people out?
Now let me know what youropinions is on this.
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Um, a lot of people agree.
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That's why I'm opening up thefloor to you.

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Let me know in the commentswhat do you think about this
situation?
Is clarissa right?
Should transgenders createtheir own league, if that's what
they want to do?
Or, you know, should they beable to compete?
Let me know your thoughts.
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Peace.