Japan Boxing Commission decided at its board meeting in Tokyo on July 19 it will reject former World Boxing Council female flyweight champion Go Shindo’s wish to take a license test to become a professional boxer as a male.

  Shindo of Green Tsuda Boxing Gym, who held a press conference at a room attached to EDION Arena Osaka together with the gym’s president Masaya Motoishi, said, ‘’I will have to accept the decision with regret since it was their decision. I will not express any opposition to their decision.’’

  Shindo, who turned 36 on July 18, became a male by going through sex reassignment surgery in 2017 in Thailand and changed his family registration after the surgery. Shindo is married and has three children as he always says, ‘’I want to show the figure I fight in the ring to my children.’’

  In this connection, JBC set up a ‘’trans male rule’’ in the day’s meeting, in which a former female boxer who has certain athletic ability will be able to get a special license and can have a three-round semi-formal sparring session with a male boxer in the form of a bout during a professional boxing event.

  Depending upon the performance of the ‘’bout,’’ there might be a possibility of enabling him a real professional license test, according to JBC sources.

  But Shindo is of the view that he can explore possibilities of fighting abroad, although he cannot say anything definite right at this moment.