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190cm, 100kg size 15 feet transwoman tries to join women's Aussie Rules football

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pisacake · 13/10/2017 15:53

www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/aflw/transgender-footballer-hannah-mouncey-waits-on-aflw-draft-call/news-story/123a463e71aa3c4b9bbd634724ce8f75

Hannah Mouncey wants to join the Australian Football League (this is basically rugby) Women's division.
"Mouncey played the final three games in the ruck for Ainslie and kicked 15 goals, with Canberra officials ruling she was not a safety concern."

this despite the fact
"one [female] player broke her leg in a tangle of legs with Mouncey."

Mouncey says:
“I am female like 50 per cent of the population. I may have been born a bit different but there was a real sense of normality when I transitioned,” she said.

The average MALE AFL player is 188cm and 88kg, so Hannah is both taller and heavier, and if admitted will both the tallest and heaviest player in the entire league.

Hannah was previously on the Australian MALE Olympic handball team as Callum Mouncey.

190cm, 100kg size 15 feet transwoman tries to join women's Aussie Rules football
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DailyWTFMoments · 15/02/2018 18:20

maid that's really useful, thank you Thanks

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mimivanne · 15/02/2018 18:48

DD is a 9stone ,5'6 experienced woman rugby player.Her thoughts;

'Mens physicality is different,their upper body strength and muscle mass is very different.Hitting a 6'3 male rugby player at speed hurts far more than hitting a woman of the same height,I've hit both and both do damage but women generally go down once you wrap round their legs,when a man hits a woman, she just flies off 12 feet in the air and crash lands ....no fun, mens stride is different,their hand offs much harder.

Anyone can break bones playing Rugby,I've broken someones leg but the impact from hitting a man at speed,whatever his size,relative to a female,is like being hit by a Eurostar train in comparison with a steam engine

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furcoatnaeknickers · 15/02/2018 18:59

I’ve pm’d you maid

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Dominithecat · 15/02/2018 19:15

Pm'd you maid

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OlennasWimple · 15/02/2018 21:50

Good analysis there maid. Men have 30% more muscle, so it makes sense that they can be 30% stronger pound for pound

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TheGoalIsToStayOutOfTheHole · 16/02/2018 22:30

6% of people think its fair/fine for transwomen to compete in womens sport. The rest say varying degrees of nope.

www.wnd.com/2017/03/switch-hitters/

Just see this when looking at a Mouncey thing on facebook

Its encouraging. From looking around it seems the site its on is considered by some to be alt-right though..but I am fairly sure that this is round about right for general public opinion when it comes to sport. Poll comes from this link, which lists a few of the different sports transwomen are cheating in

www.wnd.com/2017/03/female-athletes-crushed-by-women-who-were-once-men/

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