Plotting to ignore

Of course they do.

Transgender footballers plot to flout ban and play on

Transgender women and their allies have threatened to flout the ban on those born male playing in women’s football in England.

Telegraph Sport has been shown WhatsApp messages from those involved in a women’s league plotting to ignore a ban announced by the Football Association following last month’s Supreme Court ruling on single-sex spaces.

Fae Fulconis, who plays for Hackney Women in the sixth tier of the female game, told The i Paper: “I’m going to fight this ruling. If they want to ban me, then they can physically come and get me off the pitch.”

What does that sound like?

Oh yes: rape.

It sounds like what it is: men flatly refusing to take women’s “NO” for an answer. Men treating women like so much obstructive garbage who have to be pushed sharply aside, and if they still won’t shut the fuck up, beaten to a pulp.

Fulconis, one of around 20 trans women affected by a rule change that comes into force on June 1, added: “My birth certificate says that my sex is female, my passport says F, I see no reason why I can’t play football, so I’m going to play.

Of course he sees no reason, because he can’t hear what women are saying, because his contempt for women is so deep and so profound that it makes him deaf to our voices.

“I’m going to fight this ruling. If they want to ban me, then they can physically come and get me off the pitch. The ban goes really against the spirit of football. It goes against what women’s football is about, and it is also a complete misunderstanding and misrepresentation of who trans women are.”

Women’s football is all about men playing it instead of women? I did not know that. I did know about the not listening and not giving a shit, but I did not know that other thing. So is there any way women’s football can be about women playing football? I suppose that’s too much to ask, isn’t it. Mustn’t be greedy. It’s quite the compliment to have the word “women’s” in the name, so I shouldn’t expect more, like letting women actually play.

“Sport should be a safe haven. The basic point of football is 22 people of different backgrounds coming together and on the pitch, they are completely equal for 90 minutes, and they are only judged by their ability to kick a ball.”

“People” meaning men, of course. Not women. Obviously. What would be the point of having them on the pitch?

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