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<p>New page: &lt;boxer&gt;30919&lt;/boxer&gt; &#039;&#039;&#039;Boxer Rob Newbiggin to become &#039;Mercedes&#039; after sex-change surgery&#039;&#039;&#039; BY Alexandra Hazlett DAILY NEWS WRITER Monday, August 3rd 2009, 4:10 PM Boxer Rob Newbig...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&lt;boxer&gt;30919&lt;/boxer&gt;<br /> <br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Boxer Rob Newbiggin to become &#039;Mercedes&#039; after sex-change surgery&#039;&#039;&#039;<br /> BY Alexandra Hazlett <br /> DAILY NEWS WRITER <br /> <br /> Monday, August 3rd 2009, 4:10 PM <br /> <br /> Boxer Rob Newbiggin will fight for the last time Aug. 14 - as a man, that is. <br /> <br /> The Southport, England, boxer will undergo a sex change operation, after which he will be a female known as Mercedes, The Southport Visiter reported. <br /> <br /> 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. <br /> <br /> 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. <br /> <br /> Around age 12, Newbiggin picked up boxing, after his father encouraged him to act more masculine.<br /> <br /> �My dad said that I had to act like a man because people wouldn&#039;t accept me as anything else,� the younger Newbiggin told the Southport Visiter. <br /> <br /> �He was trying to protect me. I didn&#039;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. <br /> <br /> Newbiggin&#039;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.�<br /> <br /> �My friends don&#039;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. <br /> <br /> 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. <br /> <br /> �When it comes to my kids, it doesn&#039;t matter whether I�m a mother or a father as long as I�m a good parent,� he said. �And I think I&#039;ll be a better parent as a woman. I haven&#039;t provided enough financial stability in my male life for my children.� <br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> �I am so lucky in that respect because she understands what I&#039;m going through.� <br /> <br /> 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. <br /> <br /> Newbiggin said he has been flooded with supportive correspondence from people whom his story has moved to come forward.<br /> <br /> �So our family�s sacrifice of our privacy is already working to help others, and that�s what this whole things is about.�</div>

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