Man, people here are really dumb. Cavemen after cavemen.
Whats so complex about it? Penis + testes = mens game , vaggie + booba = womans game
Maybe they should play better if they’re so worried about losing to the other team.
I’m sure r/soccer is equipped to have a nuanced discussion about this
This is such a difficult situation. In an ideal world, trans people should be able to play with whoever.
There really just needs to be leagues for trans people at this point, there needs to be a safe space for trans people to compete without discrimination, and without potentially injuring people.
I honestly don’t know if I have that strong of an opinion about this, as I’m not truly educated on how this stuff really works, but whether trans people are allowed to compete with their own gender or not, there needs to be leagues for trans people.
Side note, a season ending knee injury from a shot? I wonder how that works.
Good on them
I’m sure r/soccer will have a nuanced discussion about a complex issue.
Removing politics from the equation, on a purely sporting level when you consider the greatest ever women’s team cannot compete with random u15 boys academies, the astronomical advantage this would give just wouldn’t be fair.
Trans-men are men.
Trans-women are women.
Don’t want to play? Forfeit.
Cunts.
If being trans automatically makes you a dramatically superior athlete then why is playing in the Sheffield & Hallamshire County league?
It’s pretty normal for lower league players to get injured by powerful shots. I’ve seen happen loads of times. A shot striking your limb at the wrong moment will break it and end your season.
I can definitely understand peoples worry about the effect trans athletes have on certain womans sports. I get that transmen and transwomen might have to play in the mens divisions, but this incident seems like panic sparked by a fairly standard injury.
Start a mental illness division.
Fucking hell, the transphobia.
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.
How can someone with physical abilities of a man play in a womens division?
The physical attribute of that player gives him/her huge advantage over others. Especially when womens football is relatively developing right now.
People hated on him at the time but Joe rogan was big on this. Biological men were fighting women in MMA and beating the shit out of them.
