A Transgender Boxing Champ Plans His Return to the Ring (VIDEO)

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A Transgender Boxing Champ Plans His Return to the Ring (VIDEO)

http://www.laweekly.com/news/a-transgender-boxing-champ-plans-his-return-to-the-ring-video-6014400

LA Weekly/By Kylie KrabbeFriday, September 11, 2015

"Transgender boxer Pat Manuel, who was born the daughter of a very present white mother and an absentee black father, sports a healthy Afro and muscles that bulge underneath a #blacklivesmatter tee. "I was raised to be a white woman, and obviously that didn't happen!" Manuel says with a laugh. "Sometimes life throws you a curveball, and you come out a black man."