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Kaliesha West
Kaliesha West (born February 11, 1988) is a professional female boxer and the former 3 time WBO Female Bantamweight and IFBA super Bantamweight Boxing World Champion. She is the first professional boxer in history, between both male and female, to become a World Champion from Inland, CA. She was born on February 11, 1988, in South Haven, Michigan. West currently resides in Moreno Valley California, a small suburb between Riverside and Palm Springs. West is a Motivational Speaker and implements her courage on
how transpeople must make sense of the disconnect between sex, gender and sex category, which they may obscure or actively express in interactions.
In January 2009, the academic journal "Gender and Society" published a West and Zimmerman Symposium, in honor of the concept of doing gender. Nine short articles were composed for the symposium, including a piece by West and Zimmerman. Several authors argued that the doing gender framework did not allow for agency, intent or consciousness. Other authors argued that biology needed to be focused on