If I’m doing my math right, Fox took 8% longer than her cisgender counterpart to knock out the same opponent. And in the first round of the fight - just 39 seconds in - Fox knocked out Newsome.īut you know what happened eight months earlier? Newsome was knocked out by Katalina Malungahu in just 36 seconds. On March 2, 2013, just days before Fox came out publicly as trans, she faced Ericka Newsome. However, it lacks incredibly important context. Fallon Fox defeated one opponent in 39 seconds But of course we don’t see “unfair MMA fighter breaks opponent’s skull” when there’s a broken nose. The nose is also part of the fused skull.
But we certainly don’t see them as often as we see broken noses or hand injuries.”
“Obviously, with the large amount of MMA that takes place around the globe and on smaller, regional shows, those kinds of facial fractures are going to be a fairly common thing month-to-month. “Maybe at times slightly more often than that. “I’d say we see broken orbitals as the result of MMA bouts about once every two to three months at the highest levels,” Zane Simon, editor at Bloody Elbow, said. While of course broken bones don’t happen in every MMA fight, this kind of injury is not unique to fights involving trans athletes. To read articles and social-media posts from people opposed to the inclusion of trans women in women’s sports, you’d think this was a once-in-a-lifetime injury. The orbit - consisting of the bones around the eye - is part of the facial skeleton and is what was broken in the fight. In reality, the skull is made up of various bones that are essentially fused together. When people use the term “skull,” they’re almost universally talking about the thick, hard cranial portion of the skull that protects the brain. This has been a favorite line of anti-trans-athlete detractors, like Glenn Beck’s The Blaze, and it is incredibly misleading. Fallon Fox broke the skull of an opponent Here are some of the most dishonest falsehoods about Fox being disseminated by people trying to create universal bans of trans women in women’s sports. Sadly, some people are resorting to the spreading of misleading information or flat-out lies. Yet this conversation needs to stick to the facts and an honest discussion. To be sure, a thoughtful conversation about the inclusion of trans women in sports is important for today’s society. Fallon Fox, the former MMA fighter who came out as trans in 2013, is again the target of ill-informed people trying to entirely ban trans women from women’s sports.įox has often been a target of these people, with many of them using false or misleading claims to discredit and defame her.
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