Her team
Lying pronouns are the tool that confuses the issue. BBC Sport:
Billie Sky has just helped her team to promotion but now she cannot play for them again.
She is one of 28 transgender women registered with the Football Association to play amateur football in England who are banned from playing FA-affiliated women’s football.
That is, he’s a man, therefore the BBC is deliberately lying to its readers by calling him “she”. And the BBC is very determined about it.
The ruling has forced Billie Sky to stop playing competitive 11-a-side football for one of her teams, London Galaxy. She will still be able to play informally for her other – Goal Diggers FC – as the club has withdrawn from all FA-affiliated leagues in response to the new policy.
“I just took part in a season with London Galaxy and helped them earn promotion,” she told BBC Sport. “Now I can’t play with them, which is really sad. I put a lot of commitment into that club. What am I supposed to do? Go and play with the men? Because I don’t feel safe playing there. And all of my team-mates want me here.”
Uh, Billie? Does it occur to you that women don’t feel safe playing against you? Does it occur to you to wonder why your safety should matter while theirs should not? Does it occur to you that even your teammates may not feel safe with you on the team?
BBC Sport approached a number of grassroots footballers who support the ban. Most did not want to go on record with their opinions because of a fear of reprisals, but one footballer, who plays in the sixth tier of the women’s game, was willing to speak anonymously.
Aha, so the BBC is aware that women have been bullied into silence on this subject. The BBC is aware but continues with the bullying anyway.
Georgie (not her real name) believes the FA’s new policy “protects the integrity of women’s football that we have fought for so long to attain”.
The issues around the policy have been described by the FA as a “complex subject” and wider debates have centred on inclusion, sporting fairness and safety in women’s sport.
Says the BBC briskly, then returns to paragraph after paragraph after paragraph of what the man Billie thinks and feels and wants and whines about.
When avid football fan Billie Sky first transitioned, she had given up on the idea of sport, but that changed when she was encouraged to join Goal Diggers FC, an inclusive club based in London.
“I think I had the first moments of my life where I wasn’t thinking about the fact that I’m trans or different or weird or something. I just felt like another person here,” she said.
Nice for him, not so nice for her and her and her…
I suspect he thought even more about being trans; it’s all these people seem to think about. It is what makes them different, what makes them stand out, what makes people and the media grovel and bow down to their demands.
And it’s not enough for them to spend all their time thinking about them; we’re supposed to spend all our time thinking about them, too, but only in approved ways. Think about our own safety? TERF! Think about the safety of other women? TERF! Think about the war in Ukraine, global warming, literature, art, the disaster of the Trump administration, and not think exclusively about how it affects trans TERF!
YES! Because you are a man.
Well, that’s the way the cookie crumbles. You can’t always get what you want. The fact is, women don’t feel safe — and aren’t safe! — with you playing in the women’s game. Too bad his feeling doesn’t translate to any insight on his part about how women feel. Unsurprising. I’ve never seen a group of such narcissistic people as trans and their allies.
Here’s a better picture of Billie and another trans player who’s even more massive: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/jun/02/goal-diggers-fc-fa-ban-trans-women
@Somebody42 #3:
In the linked article, I saw that Sky was quoted as saying:
Still with the lying. No, you blockhead, players in the women’s game have not been “questioned over their gender identity.” They’ve been asked about their sex. Big difference.
Also from that article: ‘Let the Dolls Play’. WTF? How can anyone say this isn’t based on stereotypes and misogyny?
Also from the Guardian article is this gem: Griffin said: “Football by its very nature is a contact sport. I’ve had some of my worst injuries, only a couple, against women. Everyone’s conscious of injuries. Injuries will happen, and they’re not going to stop happening because we banned 28 women from playing. Nothing is going to change on that front.”
I assume he hasn’t read this BBC article: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/49298550.amp