OutBox is a gym in Williamsburg, Brooklyn that aims to counteract the divisions in the fitness world. The gym recently gained attention due to the guidelines released by USA Boxing for trans athletes. The guidelines require trans women to have undergone genital reassignment surgery and undergo hormone testing for at least four years to compete.
Max Adler, Colline Laninga, DJ Rock, and Tray Drew assembled on-site in Williamsburg , Brooklyn , with photographer Justin J. Wee. The first half of their shoot was outdoors, against the gym's entrance in winter's ephemeral sunlight. Indoor workout attire rarely lends itself to protection against the bitter elements, and the air was so cold it felt like a joke. In between equipment changes, the team wore space blankets; Adler did pull-ups to stay warm.
OutBox, in idea and space, is an antidote, a way to counteract the kinds of division that haunt the fitness world writ large. Weeks before the shoot, USA Boxing, the sport's highest governing body, released its guidelines for trans athletes. In order to compete, trans women over the age of 18 would need to have undergone genital reassignment surgery and submit to quarterly hormone testing for at least four years following. The rules, medievally clinical, refract a much larger paralysis in professional sport over who gets to compete and how
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