The World Boxing Council is creating a transgender boxing division. The decision is little more than an attempt to drum up publicity and squeeze more money from even more fighters.

WBC President Mauricio Sulaiman correctly decided that “in boxing, a man fighting a woman must never be accepted regardless of gender change.” Instead of allowing men to fight in women’s divisions, the WBC has decided to create a transgender division, where men claiming to be women can fight men claiming to be women or women claiming to be men. This will allow whatever few transgender boxers exist (even Sulaiman admits the WBC doesn’t know) to fight without jeopardizing the safety of female boxers.