Dana White: “I Don’t Want Biological Male Competing Against My Daughter”
Dana White, the president of the UFC, has stated that he would not want his daughter to compete against transgender women in cheering.
Concerns often center on combat sports or athletic competitions like long-distance running, boxing, MMA, or sprinting, where opponents of the movement assert that transgender women retain their alleged biological advantages.
White is the most recent person to join the list, and he remarked about his daughter that he would not permit transgender people to fight in the women’s division of the Ultimate Fighter Championship, which he oversees.
Thoughts of Dana White on athletes that identify as transgender
Dana White told Piers Morgan,
“Let me put it to you this way: I have a daughter, I don’t ever want to see a day where somebody who is a biological male is competing against my daughter. “No, I think it’s another nutty, insane thing that’s happening in the world today that we’re all trying to deal with. My daughter is a cheerleader, she’s not playing any competitive sports. It hasn’t happened in the cheer world yet.”
Hormone therapy for transgender women
Controlling testosterone levels in transgender women who are competing seems to be the modern answer to the problem.
Transgender athletes were mandated by the world athletics governing body to reduce their testosterone levels to under five nanomoles per liter of blood in 2019. This requirement was met with controversy.
Laurel Hubbard represented New Zealand at the Olympic Games in 2021, making her the first transgender athlete to do so.
As a result of her weightlifting competition (+87kg), she moved up to fourth place among all weightlifters in the annals of the modern Olympics. After failing to complete it, she came in last in her group.
