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Mark Gordon Pictures Developing Biopic On Fallon Fox; The First Openly Transgender MMA Fighter

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A biopic chronicling the life of Fallon Fox, the first openly transgender MMA fighter, is getting the big screen treatment from Mark Gordon Pictures and husband & wife writing team, T Cooper and Allison Glock-Cooper.Fox originally hid her transgender identity when she began competing professionally as a Mixed Martial Arts fighter, fearful that transphobia would lead to her being rejected by the league.

As she began to triumph in the ring and neared the pro semi-finals, Fox received the phone call she had been dreading: a journalist threatening to out her to the world.

Fox took the narrative into her own hands, revealing that she is a transgender woman in an Outsports and Sports Illustrated article in 2013.

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