FA to ban men from womens football

I hope they are afraid of litigation. The time for niceness is over.

Times Radio had a ridiculous piece on this.

Nick Ellerby from TalkSport interviewed and stated that he was "concerned that Trans Women, who are THE MOST Vulnerable in society, have not been consulted or brought into the discussion" followed by him interviewing Francesca, a TW who is being picked on by the ruling.

Nothing, nothing, nothing about women. Nothing about women and girls who have been injured, intimidated, exposed to male bodies in their changing spaces and DISCIPLINED by the self same FA for mentioning that their opponent is a man.

Shame on you Times Radio, shame on you Nick Ellerby, and massive shame on the FA.

Transwoman speaking on Radio 4 now: the FA are only doing it because they're afraid of litigation. Not because they believe it.

"Relentless campaign to exclude trans people"

Sharron Davies is due to be on asap (technical issues currently)

On Radio 4 now.

ETA: 2 minutes in and I'm shouting at the radio already. Oh woe, where will the poor transwomen play now?

I'm glad to see this is at all levels as previously the bans just applied at elite levels. This left women who might have belatedly discovered their love for football/rugby/other team sports as adults as well as teen girls who enjoy the sport but don't want to be professional having to play against men or losing their place to men. Frequently men in their 40s to 60s who had played in male leagues while younger.

That goalie fella from the other days gonna be weeping into his porridge come June

@puffyisgood ok then carry on breaking the law and fuck women’s rights - let’s think of the menz!

When do you think we get to replay all of the sporting titles/ tournaments where women missed out due to a man taking their place?

Can I just say, a little glumly:

Three cheers for fair fucking play! Eventually.

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Oh there are going to be some tantrums today!

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For goodness sake, it's "mantruns"! The correct terminology is vital!

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Have you ever looked at the insurance documents for a sporting organisation - at what is covered and how much the pay outs are? I have yet to see evidence that any insurance company has acted on this risk. I would love to see evidence showing otherwise.

welllllll...

Blimey. That would be rather an interesting talk.

well there aren't many games left between now and 1 June but i suppose at grass roots level players will have paid subs, paid for kit and so on, some clubs might only have 11 players on their rosters if you include TW, it imo doesn't seem unreasonable to give clubs the summer to get their houses in order.

Gary linker must be all over this celebrating bringing fairness back to football

Why not ‘with immediate effect’ (or better still retrospectively as of royal assent of the EA 2010)?

I’m sick of pandering to morons continually breaking the law! There’s nothing to consider surely?!

Nice clear thread title OP 👏
Tells it as it is

"damage". Yeah right. Words mean absolutely nothing to the TAs.

I'm furious, I have just listened to Sky Sports News about this. They had a TW on who was trying to tug at the heart strings. And then the person said to think about the damage it would do to TW to have to play with men. It was all about them not being able to play, just a brief mention of Sharon Davies' tweet. No mention of safety for women and girls.

I think Blair is speaking at an event tonight about women's sport.

To be a fly on the wall!

So happy to see this AT LAST! Now for all other sports...

And about time too ⚽️⚽️⚽️

Alright aquatics gb, your turn - https://www.aquaticsgb.com/media/documents/BS_Policy_TC_Apr15-.pdf

Not been updated since 2015... pff...

Just heard the biggest 'boo hoo, isn't this awful for the poor transwomen' reporter on radio...
Overly incredulous and sounding upset..
'Transwomen are being BANNED from being able to play football..... so far they have been able to play in women's football leagues as long as they had testosterone levels that were below a certain level, but not anymore as the new legislation BANS them from playing football'....
Errrrr nobody's banned from playing football!

I suspect we will now have some heartrending interviews with transwomen claiming they will have to leave the sport they love forever (while missing the point that they should never have been allowed to play in the female category in the first place).

The test for the FA now is to show how truly inclusive they are. They took the cowardly and easy route to 'inclusivity' by sacrificing the women's category.

Now they will have to figure out a different way, such as making the men's category the inclusive one and allaying the concerns of trans-identifying men who say they won't feel safe to compete in it.