Former boxing promoter Kellie Maloney has said transgender women with penises should stay away from female toilets and those who have gone through male puberty should not be allowed to compete against women in sport.
Kellie, 71, announced she was transitioning in 2014 after being previously known as Frank.
She enjoyed a successful career as a boxing promoter, managing David Haye and Lennox Lewis.
Speaking in an interview with The Times, she spoke about her views on fellow transgender women and issues with female toilets and women’s sports.
She said: ‘I listen to my daughters and my friends here in Portugal — the girls are adamant that if someone wants to keep their penis they shouldn’t use women’s changing rooms.
‘That doesn’t always go down well with the trans community, but I think they’re right. I’m also against trans women who’ve gone through male puberty taking part in women’s sport.
‘We have to accept that although our brains are female, we weren’t female from birth and our bodies are stronger.’
Hard: Kellie Maloney, 68, has admitted she’s lost friends since announcing her transition in 2014, claiming they stated they ‘didn’t understand’ her decision to become a woman
Opening up: She added she still feels ‘lucky’ to have had the support of her three daughters throughout her difficult journey (pictured with her younger daughters Libby and Sophie)
Kellie has three daughters and now lives in The Algarve in Portugal alongside three dogs and several other rescue animals.
She has been divorced twice to two women and said while she has ‘had dinner with a few men’, she prefers to stay single.
Earlier this year, she said she thinks sports people who are born male should not be allowed to compete in women’s sports or be allowed to enter women’s spaces until they have undergone gender reassignment surgery.
It came after a public backlash over athletes Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting at the Olympics in Paris.
She did not agree with the backlash at the two athletes because the competitors were born female.
Speaking on Good Morning Britain, she said: ‘They are biological women, so I don’t know what the problem is.
‘They boxed in the Olympics four years ago. They were beaten by an Irish fighter and there was not one word about it.
‘They go into the World Championships, which are run by a Russian organisation that the Olympics don’t recognise and they claim they have failed a gender test.
Challenging: In a series of Instagram posts posted in 2019, she shared intimate pictures of her journey
‘But there’s no proof out there, they put no evidence of the test they did. So in Algeria you can’t be gay, you can’t be trans you get 10 years in prison. So I feel sorry for them, their lives have been destroyed.’
In 2014, Kellie revealed she was living as a woman and had spent £100,000 on transforming her physical appearance, including a final gender reassignment surgery to become a ‘fully fledged female’ in 2015.
She said her transition did cause her to lose the support of some of her friends and said it was one of the hardest things in her life.
In a series of Instagram posts posted in 2019, she shared intimate pictures of her journey, including several of her scarred face just after surgery.
Speaking in 2021, she said her rock throughout her journey was her daughters.
She said: ‘Am I bored? Maybe that’s why I’m putting up my life story in pictures, I don’t know.
‘My daughters throughout my whole journey have been my rock, my conscience and correct me when I’m right and wrong.’
She continued: ‘You can’t see into the brain when you’re born. So no one knows how your brain develops. It develops as you get older.
‘And obviously, I was born with a female brain and that was one of the hardest things in the world to me. It was hard for me to accept it, never mind anyone else for me to accept.
‘Frank Maloney, the boxing promoter, actually is a female. Was one of the hardest things in my life, you know, and I had to do it because if I didn’t do it, I would be sitting here talking to you today. I’d be in a wooden box now.’
Kellie added that she still have preferred to have been born as a woman, and is grateful to have had such a huge career in boxing promotion, as well as the support of her three daughters during her journey.