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Oklahoma’s sports commission has asked a nationally televised professional wrestling promotion to not have a transgender wrestler face off against other women wrestlers again.

Washington native Nyla Rose — who works for All Elite Wrestling (AEW) — was warned by the Oklahoma State Athletic Commission not to wrestle another woman, according to the minutes of the commission’s Jan. 3 meeting. The minutes were first reported by the blog <a href="https://www.realrasslin.net/post/aew-potentially-punished-by-archaic-oklahoma-athletic-commission" target=_blank>Real Rasslin’</a> on Tuesday.

All of this was over a Dec. 20 match in Oklahoma City that lasted 120 seconds bell to bell between Rose and Alejandra Lion. Rose won after landing a power bomb. After the match, she took a cowboy hat off the head of a fan in the crowd and put it on her head to big applause.

Rose responded to the Oklahoma news by <a href="https://twitter.com/NylaRoseBeast/status/1780724575308804104" target=_blank>tweeting</a>: “Don’t worry Oklahoma I’ll find the dastardly Transgender that *checks notes* entertained fans!!! HOW DARE THEY MAKE PEOPLE HAPPY?!!!”

The commission used the wrong pronouns for Rose in its minutes and said Rose should not have wrestled a woman. The former <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq4MqgzCauo" target=_blank>AEW Women’s World Champion</a> has logged 99 wins and 47 losses while in AEW, <a href="https://www.allelitewrestling.com/aew-roster" target=_blank>according</a> to the promotion’s website.

AEW CEO Tony Khan said he was disappointed by the commission’s decision, writing in a statement: “There simply should not be a climate in professional wrestling, or anywhere in our society, where transgender people face discrimination. AEW stands behind Nyla Rose, as well as all transgender athletes and transgender people, who are impacted by discrimination.”

Transgender <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/04/08/naia-transgender-athlete-policy/" target=_blank>athletes</a> have become a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/09/18/fair-play-gender-sports-book-barnes/" target=_blank>hotly debated topic</a> in the broader culture wars, divided roughly into conservatives often arguing it isn’t fair to other competitors and liberals saying it invalidates gender identities when people who identify as women can’t compete against women. Battles over roster makeups have made their way into the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/04/16/transgender-girl-west-virginia-track-team-ruling/" target=_blank>courts</a>, and to the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/03/28/title-ix-trans-athletes-biden/" target=_blank>desk</a> of <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/candidates/joe-biden-2024/" target="_blank" class="contextual_link">President Biden</a>.

Now, the debate has made it to a place that subverts the binary of supposed reality every week on television: professional wrestling, where the outcomes are predetermined. It is theater, not sport. (Intergender pro wrestling happens but is rare in major promotions.)

Oklahoma sports commission member Larry Lovelace made a motion Jan. 3 to “warn AEW not to do this again or there will be punitive action,” according to the minutes. The motion was unanimously approved.

The Washington Post called Lovelace’s office for comment Thursday, but the call immediately disconnected when a reporter identified himself and asked for Lovelace. A follow-up call was sent to voice mail. The message had not been returned as of Thursday afternoon.

The commission indicated in its minutes that it considered Rose indicating that she is a woman on her wrestling license application part of its problem. Applications for boxing, kickboxing and MMA all require athletes to indicate whether they have had gender reassignment surgery, but the wrestling application does not, according to the minutes. The commissioners said they would add the question “so this doesn’t happen in the future.”

University of Florida, BS in Journalism and minor in Business Administration

Ben Brasch is a general assignment reporter for The Washington Post. He is a third-generation native of St. Petersburg, Florida who spent seven years at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution before joining The Post in October 2022. He brings love of listening everywhere — from a frozen lake in Anchorage, Alaska to a burning landfill in Atlanta.

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