The very important session

They’re just trolling us.

Yay! Let’s talk about fairness and safety for women [though we carefully don’t say “for women”] in sport by asking a bunch of men what they think!

Oh wait, isn’t there one woman included? The token woman you might say?

No.

Taunty McTauntface. Dr Blair Hamilton is not a woman. Hastings Football Club on “social media abuse” of Dr Blair Hamilton:

Hastings United Football Club would like to respond and condemn the disgraceful and tasteless comments made on Twitter since the announcement of Blair Hamilton’s call up to the England Women’s University Squad.

The ‘U’s will continue to support equality in football and are proud to have Blair Hamilton represent us on the national stage. We do not condone messages of abuse, many as always coming through online accounts where the individuals hide behind a username. Online abuse is still abuse and the accounts have been reported and passed on to Twitter.

All our staff, players and supporters stand alongside Blair and will continue to support her both on and off the pitch.

Insultingly, they file this under “Womens News.” [sic]

They also, also insultingly, don’t say what the “abuse” was, or what it was about. I’m making a wild guess that it wasn’t abuse and it was about putting a man on a women’s football team.

pause to confirm

Oh yes, it’s this guy:

Transgender woman who used to play men's football receives England  Universities call-up | The Argus

We’ve seen that photo before.

So yes, a panel of five men, one of whom identifies as a woman and feels entitled to compete against women in football, are getting together to decide what rights women can have.

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