The post is false. The video does not show an MMA fight between two women, including a transgender fighter. The fight took place in Poland and pitted a man and a woman against each other.
In recent weeks, a publication has been shared on social networks reporting an alleged mixed martial arts fight between two women, in which one of the wrestlers is transgender. EITHER mail is accompanied by a video excerpt from the alleged fight, as well as a caption suggesting that the fight in question is proof of the “injustice” committed against cisgender women (individuals who express an identity identical to their birth gender). The author even writes that “trans women are taking the place of biological women”, further questioning whether “Is Nikolas Ferreira right or not?”. This last question is a reference to the Brazilian deputy who gave a speech in Parliament against “men who feel like women”, ending up being the subject of complaints in the Federal Supreme Court for transphobia.
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The publication does not present great details beyond the aforementioned video, without explaining, for example, where and when the alleged combat took place. Still, doing a simple search on search engines like Google, we didn’t find any real news about the realization of a struggle between trans and cisgender individuals, with the exception of publications such as the one reviewed.
On the other hand, a search for image identification tools, such as Google Images, allows us to perceive that the the combat in question took place in Polandin October 2021. He was part of an event of MMA-VIP, a Polish organization that, according to the official website, is dedicated to promoting “freak show” fights, an expression used to describe fights with a profound disparity in ability, experience, or weight between fighters. MMA-VIP also organizes fights between celebrities and people of Different genres.
According to several international sports websites, including the Brazilian newspaper “O Globo”, one of the people who appears in the images of the fight is Wiktoria Domżalska, a polish wrestler. The second is Michal Przybylowicz, also known as the “polish ken”, a personality who became famous on Instagram due to the similarities he has with the famous doll made by the Mattel company.
Both MMA-VIP and the media that covered the event were unanimous in presenting the fight as a dispute between a man and a woman. Likewise, it is not possible to find any news online confirming that either of the two identifies as transgender. The “Polish Ken” has even commented on numerous occasions on the “pseudonym” he has been given, including in an interview quoted by the British tabloid Daily Mail in which he assures that his appearance is due to beauty treatments, not procedures such as plastic surgery.
By the way, this It was not the only fight between different genders taking place at this specific event. Even before Domżalska and Przybylowicz entered the ring, Piotr “Mua Boy” Lisowski, another Pole who rose to fame on social media, and wrestler Ula Siekacz, faced off. the result was the same in both bouts: men won. It should be noted that this event, which took place in 2021, sparked a wave of social media riot at the time, with many sports fans criticizing the demonstrated violence — particularly in fights that pitted athletes of different genders against each other.
The information present in this mail has already been denied by other international fact checkers, such as Lupa and Estadão.
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Conclusion
The post is false. The video does not show a fight between two people, in which one of them identifies as transgender. In fact, it is about an MMA fight between a man and a woman, which took place in Poland at the end of 2021. The event in question was the subject of much criticism on social networks, mainly due to the disparity in strength shown. . by different athletes.
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Source: Observadora
