Males over 12 now allowed to play in Ladies Gaelic Football

A podcast about GAA sports has released an episode about the LGFA policy change:

[Interview with] Danielle Loughrey who plays football for Buncranna GAA and is also the PRO for the Donegal County Board and Sorcha, who is the Sports working team lead from the Countess advocacy group for women and children, about the new LGFA policy for transgender women in the woman's game.
anchor.fm/colm-parkinson/episodes/New-LGFA-transgender-policy-e1vanvv

Camogie doesn't bear thinking about. Some great oaf clattering you with a bloody hurley !

I must ask the local gaa heads wtf is going on here.

Aside from anything else there's a knowledge issue. Assuming most teams won't be inundated with transgender players, the majority of female players will never train with a transgender girl/woman before they face one as opposition. The risk of injury from a badly timed block will be much higher when a) a player is more likely to get their timing wrong as they won't be used to the extra speed and force a male bodied player can use, and b) the body following through on that kick is powered by male strength.

It’s really hard to imagine how any sane person can look at that photo and not see a middle aged man playing against a teenage girl. And how any sane person who gives a damn about women’s/girls’ sports can think that’s safe, fair, or morally acceptable.

And yet there are people insisting that this is a woman and successfully advocating for h— inclusion in this women’s/girls’ team. Taking a place away from an actual woman or girl. Posing a far greater risk of injury to h— opponents. Just being a massively unsporting cheat.

And what about the changing rooms? Are there any parents deluded enough to actually cheerlead for the prospect of this individual stripping off and showering alongside their teenage daughters? I mean, in any other circumstances, school would make a referral to social services if parents were encouraging that sort of thing. But oh look, schools and social services have been captured too, so it’s all ok!

They all apparently think this really is a woman like any other. Or do they? I wonder. I wonder what they really think in the privacy of their own minds.

Talk about hairsplitting. It was a Junior level match as in not the A teams rather than underage. But the fact is we have a grown man tackling a 16 year old girl in that photo.

He has become passionate about Ladies Gaelic Football despite being an Italian who only arrived here recently. And whose former employment was in a London BDSM club called Torture Garden.

You can get down off your stilts now pal.

Oh, how unexpected. @Flounder2022 has flounced before telling us what we're permitted to read.

We can all read what you posted.

And we can all see how you whine about women defending our sports against male invaders, but have no actual argument at all in support of those pisstakers.

Bye now.

Don’t let the door hit you on your male supremacist arse on the way out.

I have no need or desire to defend my position to anyone on here. I attacked no one, I merely made a couple of points. I wish you well in your echo chamber.

It’s almost like Flounder isn’t here in good faith. And can’t defend his/her position, so resorts to unjustified attack.

Go figure.

I did think Flounder would at least have a go with the traditional clownfish argument, given his/her username; but was sadly disappointed.

I guess I just need to scale down my expectations. Maybe another plaice would serve the porpoise better.

I didn't say it was. My post clearly states that I was referring to the photo, not the entire team. The girl in the photo playing against a biological male was underage.

I also said girl not girls, which would have implied an underage match.
But good effort at trying to distract away from what actually happened.

Bottled it, in other words - because you know you don’t have an argument, just your vile, misogynistic, male supremacist-based sophistry and lies.

And you have the brass neck to call others disingenuous, you, a promoter of the most dishonest, unreasoned codswallop ever seen in the modern western world.

Shameless.

So @Flounder2022 if you don’t want a discussion why are you here? To tell the wimmins off? To show us your superior intellect?

Lol all you want. But at least be truthful when you make your arguments. You believe in it, therefore no need to make false statements, surely.

I will turn down your kind offer thank you. I have long since come to the realisation there are few on here who are interested in actual discussion or open to considering alternative viewpoints on this.

But using Gript as a source is akin to quoting Breibart.

1. Is what to they're saying incorrect?
2. What source is acceptable?
3. Do you have a link to an acceptable source reporting on this story?

Lol at “disingenuous”.

Go on then, Flounder, make the case for biologically male people competing in sports that were set aside for biologically female people on the basis that female bodies are very different from male bodies.

Let’s hear what you’ve got. And no disingenuousness from you, while you’re about it!

I know many of you don’t care who you lay in bed with once they agree with you on this issue, and so pointing this out is probably pointless. But using Gript as a source is akin to quoting Breibart.

Your use of underage here is really disingenuous. This was not an underage match.

Paddy O Gorman who is an occasional RTE contributer covers the Limerick Prison situation on his podcast. With interviews with women who were in jail with the TW. He's had a couple of episodes on it. He's obviously been deemed a hateful bigot for this but is standing firm on covering it.

It’s contempt for women and girls

same as in Scotland

inclusive. Is it fuck.

it’s exclusive

StephanieSuperpowers · Today 18:02

It is shocking. I don't understand why safety and fairness are being so casually disregarded.

It truly is, isn't it? All in the name of being kind and progressive, to the detriment of the majority of people (girls and women) who are involved in sports. I'm gladdened by what seems to be an increasing number of people being prepared to say, "Now hang on a minute, this doesn't seem right..."

It's right across the western world, really, we're all in the same conflict. The only thing that changes is the specific local circumstances.

It really is - and I think what you say about the contempt it demonstrates is true not just of this particular issue but of the whole so called “trans rights”/gender identity ideology movement in general.

It is all rooted in profound contempt, on a societal level, for female people.

I was never fully aware of that until this movement started chipping away at the rights we had only just acquired; like many, I thought attitudes had really changed, and women’s place and equal footing in the world was now just a matter of inevitable continued forward movement.

How wrong I was. There’s certainly nothing like this movement for bringing about 21st century consciousness raising, as we see over and over again the clear contempt, the shocking lack of value in which we’re held. And the extent to which internalised misogyny holds sway, even in women who self describe as feminists.

Sorry, bit of a tangent. I’m sorry that all of you who love the sport are having to deal with this, as with every other manifestation of this modern day misogyny on stilts. But we will wake up the world eventually. Solidarity from across the water!

It is shocking. I don't understand why safety and fairness are being so casually disregarded. As a sport, it won't exist without female players but they're just taken for granted.