Fallon Fox
| Fallon Fox | |
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| Born |
November 29, 1975 Toledo, Ohio, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) |
| Weight | 144 lb (65 kg; 10.3 st) |
| Division | Featherweight (2012–present) |
| Reach | 70 in (178 cm) |
| Fighting out of | Schaumburg, Illinois |
| Team | Midwest Training Center |
| Years active | 2012–present |
| Mixed martial arts record | |
| Total | 6 |
| Wins | 5 |
| By knockout | 3 |
| By submission | 2 |
| Losses | 1 |
| By knockout | 1 |
| By decision | 0 |
| Mixed martial arts record from Sherdog | |
Fallon Fox (born November 29, 1975) is an American MMA (mixed martial arts) fighter. She is the first openly transgender athlete in MMA history.
Fox was born in Toledo, Ohio. She recalls struggling with her birth-assigned gender as early as five or six years old. As a teenager, Fox believed she may have been a gay male, but learned about the term transgender at the age of 17. Fox continued living as a heterosexual male and married her then-girlfriend at the age of 19, when the latter became pregnant with their daughter. Fox then joined the US Navy to support her new family, serving as an operations specialist on the USS Enterprise.
After leaving the Navy, Fox enrolled at the University of Toledo, but dropped out citing ongoing psychological stress from her unresolved gender issues. After leaving college, Fox worked as a truck driver to earn money for sex reassignment surgery. She later moved to Chicago, Illinois with her daughter. In 2006, she traveled to Bangkok, Thailand to undergo gender reassignment surgery, breast augmentation, and hair transplant surgeries at the Bangkok National Hospital.
Fallon Fox came out publicly on March 5, 2013 in an interview with Outsports writer Cyd Zeigler and Sports Illustrated, after her two initial professional fights. Controversy swelled over confusion with the California State Athletic Commission (CSAC) and Florida’s athletic commission over the licensing process Fox chose to complete in Coral Gables. After publications shed light on the licensing procedure and Fox’s coming out many commentators brought up the issue of whether a person birth-assigned as a male should be able to fight in women’s divisions in MMA fighting.
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