Video: ‘This is who I am.’ A transgender boxer’s journey

Pat Manuel fought as a woman. Fought to become a man. And now fights to stay in the ring.

The L.A. Times followed Manuel for three years, tracking the boxer’s journey from a woman hoping to make Olympic boxing history to a transgender man working to get back in the ring.

Read the story: The first U.S. boxer to fight as a woman, and then as a man

See more photos: Preparing for a bout with identity