First ever all-transgender team to play a football match!
There’s just one slight problem.
The transgender team is all trans women.
The other team is all women.
Of course the news article doesn’t admit that up front. They never do.
A local football club will play against a team of solely transgender women in a “world first”.
Dulwich Hamlet will compete against Trans Radio UK United FC (TRUK) on 31 March.
TRUK United’s squad will consist only of transgender women, who will take to the pitch against Dulwich Hamlet’s womens team.
Very validating for the trans women no doubt, but what about the physical safety of the women? Not to mention the fair competition aspect.
Event organiser Lucy Clark says the match, which will take place at Dulwich’s Champion Hill, will “make history” as it is the first time an all transgender female squad has been fielded in a football game.
Lucy Clark, “the world’s first openly trans referee”:
The game is in aid of Transgender Day of Visibility, an annual event dedicated to “celebrating transgender people.”
“[This] is an important date for the transcommunity and is the perfect day for this important match,” says Lucy, “not only because it is a first and is making history, but will also show, that despite all the anti trans negativity that seems to be everywhere, there is a place for transgender and non binary people in sport.”
And that place is in women’s competitions no matter what sex the trans players are.
Updating to add a snapshot of Referee Lucy:
H/t Blood Knight
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11 responses to “First ever”
So, see? They really are willing to have a transgender team! Of course, they still insist on playing against women…
I wonder when Lucy will get her statue as the groundbreaking referee?
“Lucy”, what an appropriate name for someone planning on maliciously fucking up football for someone else.
If those on the trans team are actual football players rather than random men that put their hand up for a lark, then I guess there is a large enough population of trans athletes for an all trans women’s division after all, at least at the international level.
@4: Or they could just colonize women’s sports, and make women’s sports 100% trans-identified males. Scary.
BK @ 3 – well spotted! I didn’t even notice.
Is it Transgender Day of Visibility again? Is this like a monthly thing? I swear we just had one. I’ll again note that they’re quite visible, so I’m not sure of the point of this anyway.
This is kind of a gimmick event, so as long as the women opposing them know what they’re getting into and consented, to me it’s not really a problem. Less of an issue than if they think they’re playing women and the opposing shows up with Hannah Mouncey.
What kind of gimmick though? The usual kind – celebrate trans women, accept trans women, center trans women, focus all your attention on trans women, include trans women, talk about it when trans women do a thing (but be sure to call them trans people when the thing involves women, so that no one will catch on). Gimmicks aren’t necessarily benign.
Skeletor, it is absolutely essential they have a trans day of visibility during Women’s History Month; otherwise, people might pay attention to women. (I’m just kidding; most people ignore women even during Women’s History Month). We simply cannot have a women’s month that doesn’t center trans now, can we? Unless, of course, we’re TERFs.
@OB #6:
Thanks for the mention! :)
Credit where due!