After a video showed

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Well what did they think was going to happen?

Two transgender netball players have been banned from competing in Australia after a video showed one of them knocking an opponent to the ground.

Rival teams threatened a boycott over footage of Melton Central player Manawa Aranui sending a member of the Romsey team crashing to the court.

There was no foul and Aranui, who played elite men’s netball before transition, is seen offering to help the opponent to her feet.

So typical of journalism on this subject that it casually neglects to spell out the key fact here. What kind of “transgender netball players” eh Telegraph? Are they possibly male at all? If so why not say so in the lede? You pathetic chickenshits.

However, following a host of complaints, Victoria’s Riddell District Football Netball League (RDFNL) announced the two trans Melton Central team-mates were now excluded from competition.

That is, the two male Melton Central team-mates. The word “trans” does not specify sex or gender, so you have to spell it out. It’s your job to report clearly and accurately on this manipulative evasive sly sneaky campaign to let men ruin women’s sports.

Melton South Netball Club had threatened to boycott matches against Melton Central due to safety concerns. The RDFNL acknowledges the pair “exhibit superior stamina and physique” in a statement explaining the ban.

“After lengthy consideration and consultation, the RDFNL has ruled that the two transgender participants be excluded from the RDFNL netball competitions for the remainder of the 2025 season on the premise that both participants exhibit superior stamina and physique over their competitors, deeming Section 42 of the Sex Discrimination Act relevant,” a statement said.

All this yet the Telegraph still finds it necessary to be hyper-“polite” to the massive shits invading women’s sports and threatening women’s safety.

Melton South’s netball coordinator Melissa Dawson subsequently told News Corp reporters in Australia that she would support her players if they chose to forfeit games over safety concerns.

“One of the players is six foot something – it’s ridiculous,” she said. “Netball Victoria needs to put the safety of biological females first.”

In response, a furious Aranui said on Facebook: “I’ve sat quietly long enough while this narrative brewed and I’ve been dragged – publicly and without consent – into a conversation where both my character and identity have been attacked. Now, it’s exploded across social media and news outlets.”

Cheating cheater says what?

Update: This happened a year ago, but I missed it then, so here it is now.

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3 responses to “After a video showed”

  1. Holms Avatar
    Holms

    Jesus christ, the guy is built like a brick shithouse. They didn’t even collide in a way that would normally result in a crash: he was moving away from her, and yet she bounced off his shoulder without him seeming to notice from sheer body mass difference.

    Defending this man’s inclusion in the sport is pure madness, he’s a battle tank.

  2. maddog1129 Avatar
    maddog1129

    Hulking man forcing his way into women’s sports says:

    I’ve sat quietly long enough while this narrative brewed and I’ve been dragged – publicly and without consent – into a conversation where both my character and identity have been attacked.

    You’ve been “dragged into this” without your consent? What are you talking about?

    Are you male? Of course you are! Didn’t you formerly play men’s “elite” netball, because you’re a man? Of course you did! You played men’s elite netball “before transition”: did your “transition” change your sex? No, it did not! Did you then deliberately insert yourself onto a women’s team? Why, yes, you did!

    Don’t give me that “without your consent” malarkey. You voluntarily chose to cheat in a very obvious manner. You did so with the deliberate intention to cheat. You can’t now act like it is the victims of your cheating who are violating some sort of rule by pointing out your cheating. You invited the attention; of course it was “with your consent.”

    And did you ever think to ask all the women that you are cheating — teammates and opponents alike — for their consent to your cheating? I seriously doubt it.

    You lament that your character and your “identity” are being attacked.

    Liar. Nobody cares a fig about your “gender identity.” That’s totally irrelevant to the matters at issue. Go ahead and be a “trans woman” all you want to. Grow out your hair. Wear women’s clothes if you want to. Learn to simper and tilt your head. Nobody cares about that. The relevant characteristic is your sex, not your “gender identity.” Nobody is attacking your “identity,” gender or otherwise.

    You are correct, however, that people are attacking your character. That’s because you are a liar and a cheat. You are lying about your sex, using bogus “gender ideology” to pretend that you have changed yourself into a woman, by uttering the proper magical incantation (i.e., merely by saying “I am a woman”). It’s pure wish-thinking.* Wish-thinking has never yet altered physical reality; a person born male remains male for every instant of his life, no matter what he does to himself. Human beings cannot change their sex.

    You are intentionally telling this lie because you are deliberately cheating. You are not a woman; you don’t belong in women’s netball. Forcing yourself into sports reserved for women is cheating.

    So quit whining. You invited — consented to — this controversy. The things that you are consciously doing — lying and cheating — necessarily call your character into question. If you didn’t want your character “attacked,” you should have thought twice about lying and cheating.

    *It’s incredible that any rational person could fall for such laughably false propaganda, yet here we are.

  3. Ophelia Benson Avatar
    Ophelia Benson

    Damn right!

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