Boxer Rob Newbiggin to become 'Mercedes' after sex-change surgery,will continue to box as a woman
NYDailyNews Reports
Boxer Rob Newbiggin will fight for the last time Aug. 14 - as a man, that is.
The Southport, England, boxer will undergo a sex change operation, after which he will be a female known as Mercedes, The Southport Visiter reported.
Newbiggin, born in Pennsylvania in 1964, had the anatomy of a male but high levels of the female hormone estrogen, which mean he could not be definitively classified as either sex.
His parents abandoned him, and he was adopted at age 2 1/2 by Ted Newbiggin and his wife, who had immigrated to Canada from Manchester, England.
Around age 12, Newbiggin picked up boxing, after his father encouraged him to act more masculine.
“My dad said that I had to act like a man because people wouldn't accept me as anything else,” the younger Newbiggin told the Southport Visiter.
“He was trying to protect me. I didn't find out I was adopted until I was 16, and then about how I was born, but then it all started making sense to me,” he said.
Newbiggin's announcement was first printed in the daily tabloid The Sun, and he said afterward he had “lost every friend I have ever had in the world in this town.”
“My friends don't want to know me. I’ve got people winding their windows down shouting abuse at me while I go for my run – that’s why we are having to relocate. I have to think about my kids,” the boxer said.
As far as his kids are concerned, Newbiggin says sex will have no bearing on his ability to be a parent, and he might even do better as a woman.
“When it comes to my kids, it doesn't matter whether I’m a mother or a father as long as I’m a good parent,” he said. “And I think I'll be a better parent as a woman. I haven't provided enough financial stability in my male life for my children.”
He and his wife, Emma, who have been married for three years, are going to stay together, Newbiggin said, and added that she has been extremely supportive.
“I am so lucky in that respect because she understands what I'm going through.”
After becoming Mercedes, Newbiggin said, he hopes to have a future in modeling, painting and interior design. He also said he plans to apply for a boxing license as a female to continue his career.
Newbiggin said he has been flooded with supportive correspondence from people whom his story has moved to come forward.
“So our family’s sacrifice of our privacy is already working to help others, and that’s what this whole things is about.”
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Comment by Saint Michael on August 5, 2009 at 8:25am - YUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Comment by Wilson Acevedo on August 4, 2009 at 9:44pm - SUPER DUPER GAY
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Comment by MackMommyBklyn on August 4, 2009 at 9:20pm - Wow.
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Comment by jquiz on August 4, 2009 at 8:46pm -
achoo!...
...ahem. This MAN's clearly had an unusual upbringing; confusion left and right. Mom being on his left and Dad to his right, of course. Add the whole test-to-estro ratio b******* and he like all transgenders are saddly confused. If he was able to fully form male genitalia, develop that much musculature, and drop a seed, then he is definatly male. Which is all possible even with an abnormally high estrogen level. But I don't even see gyno. S*** the dudes clean shaven and he's got a 5 o'clock shadow! High estrogen levels don't make someone female. Genitalia not transforming from female to male in utero (we all start female) make someone female.
But if you tell someone some b******* all his life he will believe it or be affected by it. Some boys are sissies. Sissies have always existed. That doesn't mean they are not male or that they should get the rubber bands and scissors out either. A males gender can be questionable if he has XXY chromosomes as opposed to XY. But you only notice something like that if his DNA is tested. AND NOOOOOOOO, you dong get a wonky endocrine system from food!!!!! Hormones like testosterone and estrogen, even if your food is INTENTIONALLY laced with them, do not survive digestion. The chemicals are broken down by stomach acids. And even if they managed to make it through the stomach, the liver will finish the job. All before they get anywhere near a receptor site.
Dude's just f***** up in the head. I wonder how much some greazy doctor is getting paid to chop his d*** off.
wow u tell ur wife ur cutting ur d*** off and she says
ok...
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Comment by mR 305 aka YuNg tRoN on August 4, 2009 at 5:17pm - wdf damn i feel bad for da kids smdh
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Comment by NEWARK_BRICKZ on August 4, 2009 at 4:17pm - DIET PLAYS A BIG PART IN THE MAKE UP OF YOUR BODY AND ITS FLUIDS AS WELL AS YOUR CELLS AND HORMONES WATCH WHAT YOU EAT!
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Comment by TheRealChris09 on August 4, 2009 at 4:15pm - HOMO
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Comment by NEWARK_BRICKZ on August 4, 2009 at 4:14pm
- YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT!
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Comment by NEWARK_BRICKZ on August 4, 2009 at 4:13pm
- ITS THE MILK AND EGGS THAT MADE UP HIS PARENTS SPERM! ANIMAL HORMONES MESS WITH OURS....THIS IS PART OF THE REASON GAYNESS IS AT AN ALL TIME HIGH.
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Comment by JDaveM on August 4, 2009 at 3:42pm - WTF i hate f*** like that...he gonna go to f***** hell s***
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