Trans football player

[Teetotal2018]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-43044082

What do you all think if this? It doesn’t seem fair to me

[ChiefClerkDrumknott]

Ridiculous

[InfiniteSheldon]

Obviously not fair

[dantdmistedious]

I think its fucking ridiculous and scary how such a minority are having such a massive impact.

[Popchyk]

clicky link

Another day, another kick in the teeth for women.

[OvaHere]

Fair doesn't seem to come into it anymore. May as well get rid of all sporting segregation and categories. Don't bother with dope testing either.

Seems like anything goes when it comes to winning if this is what is setting a precedent.

[mimivanne]

Australian Rules Football
'Players can position themselves anywhere on the field & may use any part of their bodies to move the ball.making it a more physical-contact sport.more similar to Rugby'
He is a strongly built man over 6 feet tall.My daughter,5 foot six and 9 stone successfully played Rugby for years against much bigger women ,but his physical advantage will be overwhelming .
Utter madness
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[InfiniteSheldon]

More than overwhelming dangerous how can people not see this is a death knell for women's sport

[Valentinesfart]

The BBC have been as kind as possible only using a head shot I think.

[Valentinesfart]

Honestly though. If you saw "hannah" you'd assume there was a stag do about.

[OneFlewOverTheDodosNest]

Hannah Mouncey broke a woman's leg whilst playing at a regional level which is not surprising at 6 ft 3 and 15 st 10 lbs.

Mouncey is in fact significantly taller and heavier than the average Australian Footballer men's league player but you notice that from the headshot that the BBC chose to show rather than a picture of Mouncey next to the rest of the team.

[OvaHere]

I hate how the BBC are so complicit in much of this madness. I hope they are held to account at some point along with the Guardian.

[OneFlewOverTheDodosNest]

Previous clicky thread from when Mouncey was initially rejected from AFL.

I give it 3 months before there's a serious injury to a female player as a consequence of this decision and I hope to God that whoever gets hurt sues the AFL for every damn penny.

[Pythagonal]

Is it just me, or does Hannah really look like He-man in the Money's upstairs ads in that first photo?

[Valentinesfart]

Any Australians about? How do the females players who need to play against Hannah feel about it? I assume her team are fine with it as it's an advantage and they won't end up with broken legs... (Much like "Gabrielle's" basketball coach)

[Valentinesfart]

I don't actually like poking fun at transwomen's appearance in case they are legitimate and have dysphoria etc, and being a woman isn't about looks anyway. However, I am struggling with what is clearly an absolutely brutish jaw on what is obviously a large male.

[blaaake]

So she was shit on the men's team and decided she'd do better competing against women (obviously), and didn't even thank them for letting her? Fuck right off

[mimivanne]

Apart from the obvious'wrongness' of this,I've been wondering who will pay to watch it ?

[OneFlewOverTheDodosNest]

mimi my worst fear is that they've done this knowing it will create an uproar and will increase viewing of the women's game.

[noraclavicle]

“Apart from the obvious'wrongness' of this,I've been wondering who will pay to watch it ?“

Ooh, dunno. Maybe raging misogynists and the kind of Labour folk who have secret FB pages with ‘Down with cis’ as their banners? Just a wild guess.

[Teetotal2018]

I don’t like poking fun at the way trans folk look (or anyone for that matter) but if I was a player on the opposing team I would be outraged! This person clearly has a gender advantage!

[Patodp]

They wrote 4 pages about how difficult it all is, me, me, trans women, me, I should never have been held back, science is on my side, no one understands me....
Not even a thought to women, girls, any acknowledgement at all. The women who have to play up against a 6 foot 3 bloke.
I will never understand how this OK.

[Valentinesfart]

"It would be wrong to thank them for letting me play since everyone has the right" fuck off fuck off

[OvaHere]

One Flew

my worst fear is that they've done this knowing it will create an uproar and will increase viewing of the women's game.

Kind of what this article says

"There'll be a few more people at the game hopefully, I think there'd be a lot more people interested to see what happens," Rourke said.

www.canberratimes.com.au/sport/act-sport/ainslie-dont-expect-hostile-crowds-should-hannah-mouncey-return-to-afl-canberra-20180213-h0w201.html

[Valentinesfart]

Give it 15 years of this nonsense and "people of indeterminate gender but with xx chromosomes" will create their own teams again. Maybe we can even start a movement for the liberation of people with xx chromosomes

[SuburbanRhonda]

”There'll be a few more people at the game hopefully, I think there'd be a lot more people interested to see what happens," Rourke said.

What a great plan - reeling in people in the promise of seeing a woman getting seriously injured by a biological male. Might as well hold the event in a Roman amphitheatre.