It’s utterly insane that people are really trying to deny biological reality and say that men and women can be on an equal playing field.
I don’t care how many years a transwoman is on hormones, they will still be stronger than any biological woman on the team. Elective post-puberty hormones do not negate that men are more muscular, have larger bone density and are sizably stronger than women.
It’s unfortunate that these girls can’t speak up for themselves without being labeled.
I remember mixed practices with the boys soccer team and they were clearly stronger than myself and my teammates. I faint imagine actually playing against them in a real game.
The only “fair” way it to have an open category and let them compete in that.
By the rules listed in the article, it would appear that she’s allowed to play.
If a team doesn’t want to take the field, they are free to forfeit the match. That’s how the sport works.
So yeah, looks like it’s not a complex issue after all.
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As they should do, this bullshit needs to stop going on.
Give them their own division and be done with it, it’s unfair for these women and is damaging the growth of the sport.
This reaaaally shouldn’t be a complex situation at all, if anything each gender should have their own category. Ie male,female or trans. But then the trans community is rediculously small, so I doubt that be able to have their own
A trans division doesn’t make any sense as you’d have the same exact biological problem with ftm playing mtfs. So clearly it isn’t fairness that you care about unless you just didn’t think about it
mhmm that’s a very valid point! I hadnt even looked at it from that way. And fairness is competing with your OWN biological gender. Unless it’s a mixed sport
It’s a complex issue that doesn’t have 1 simple answer. You cant ban all trans women from women’s sport - what about people that began transitioning before puberty? It’s not exactly something that hasn’t been debated before, so the FA really need to already have some guidelines in place.
What about women (like Caster Semenya) that have a naturally higher concentration of testosterone? The issue could fall down then on players essentially refusing to play because they think someone is trans.
I hadn’t even looked at it from that POV, your comment is correct in many ways.
maybe dont let biological males compete in biological female sports. science deniers really need to get their heads checked.
As a trans woman who plays recreational football for a womens/nonbinary inclusive club, cisgender women regularly outpace, outmuscle, outjump, and generally outplay me. It is exactly the same in the other contact sport I play.
The divide is not as dramatic as it’s made out to be, and the assumption that every trans player is inherently better due to biology does a disservice to cis female athletes who are more than capable of competing equally. Nobody talks about how the only transfeminine weightlifter at the 2020 Olympics came last.
This thread is really showing r/soccer’s bad side huh
I’m enjoying the people telling the one trans woman here, that is actually involved in women’s sport, that she’s wrong.
Ain’t that like them… The same people who will go on to never watch a women’s match either.
Its fine at the recreational level, eg. pickup basketball or football. However these are athlete careers and women should have a fair opportunity at that. The men’s league should be renamed open and allow athletes for all genders, while women’s leagues should be kept bio women.
A lot of people forget that the reason women’s sports in general are behind is due to money and mysogyny. Women’s football wasn’t recognised by the FA until 1970 so it made it almost impossible for women to organise and play. They’ve had to start in 1970 where men started in 1860.
Honestly it’s part of why it isn’t as popular as it could be but are you honestly saying that they’d be equal in popularity compared to the men if not for this?
Why isn’t this the case in other countries then? England has by far the most popular womens football despite this, how come it’s not more popular in say Sweden, Germany, Spain etc?
I’m a cis guy who gets regularly outpaced during races by women. Don’t see why there should be a women’s category at all, the divide is not as dramatic as it’s made out to be
Maybe ur just shit at sport, because the divide is absolutely massive. I played for a completely average mens team, and at 16 we beat our counties female under 18 team so badly we completely flipped our team, putting our cb and keeper up top just to keep it remotely unembarassing
Anecdotes don’t work in this context. If we look at the two biological genders, we see a clear distinction in which one displays a higher level of “traditional” athleticism.
It’s cuz you’re just trash
There should be an open category and a female category.
As for the case of FtM then they would have to play in the open category as that would be the same as doping if they were to play in the female category
There should be an open category and a female category.
that’s how tons of sports work (like chess and… the NFL). and imho, it’s totally fair.
in chess, for example, men dominate. but once in a while, you have someone like Judit Polgár.
There should be at least 3 categories.
Biological Males, Biological Females, Free for all (everyone can compete regardless of gender)OR they could have various trans categories the same way the special Olympics has different levels of handicap.
Just make the male one open for all.
That way mtf athletes can just compete vs men, they wouldn’t have an advantage then.
Whats so complex about it? Penis + testes = mens game , vaggie + booba = womans game
Lmaoooo yeah. A real “complex” issue
So many people in this thread seem to think everyone should have the exact same body type or else the sport isn’t “fair”. I played rugby in my school in PE against players who play in super league now (top European rugby league division). They were physically stronger and in better shape than everyone else. We were much more in risk of being injured by them than anyone else. However isn’t that sport? They shouldn’t have been forced to not play to account for smaller less skilled players.
Not complex in any way
Okay find an answer that isn’t discriminatory towards trans people
Hang on so the ladies don’t want to play against man who can hit a ball so hard it’s caused injuries?
Why isn’t he / she / whatever just playing with other men?
