If the FA believes there are issues
Dang what a lot of contortions people go through to avoid telling the truth about men who pretend to be women.
FA resists calls to ban transgender players from women’s matches
First contortion right in the headline, as always. The calls are to ban male players from women’s matches. The calls really don’t give a damn how the male players idennify because the issue is that they’re male.
English football chiefs have introduced new rules on transgender players in women’s matches that stop short of a blanket ban but allow the FA to intervene if it believes there are issues around safety or fairness of competition.
If. Fuck you, dudes. Of course there are “issues”: that’s the whole point.
The updated policy came into force on April 1 and continues the practice of allowing transgender women to play in amateur women’s competitions if they have had reduced testosterone levels for at least a year.
Campaigners had wanted football to follow sports such as rugby union and hockey by restricting women’s matches to those who were born female, with an open category for all other players.
Instead, about 20 transgender women registered to play amateur football in England can continue to do so if their testosterone levels are below 5nmol per litre for at least 12 months. However, a change to the regulations means the FA can step in if it has any concerns and ask its Transgender and Non-Binary Eligibility Committee to make a decision.
Because god forbid they should just say no men in women’s sports, the end.
T and enby eligibility committee? Who’s on this committee? Why do they get to “make a decision”? How about the women’s committee? How about they get to decide?
Women decide??? Don’t be absurd.
I don’t know about hockey but the English Rugby Union’s ‘open’ category allows women – including those who identify as male – to play in what is essentially the men’s game under one strict condition: the women must sign a consent form that explicitly states that they accept the risks involved in playing against men. The reason that the same doesn’t apply to the women’s game is obvious to everybody except trans-identifying men. It would mean having the women either having to accept the risks to themselves of playing against men, or to not be allowed to play in their own game.