Times article, injury fears over rugbys transwomen drives referees off pitch

[happydappy2]

Apologies can’t link, but a good article. Surely this can’t go on much longer

@OooErMissus

I assume that you are not in England as that doesn't happen here. It is based on age here.

That Verity Tweet: why does Verity now play wheelchair rugby, do we know? Maybe Verity has been injured in a tackle with a big bloke.

I'm in NZ!

I'm in NZ!

Makes sense, I knew that they categorised by height and weight in NZ and it makes perfect sense.

@AncientLights

She probably plays wheelchair rugby because she can no longer play in women's teams and secondly although she is a man doesn't want to fully embrace it in the rugby pitch as she will get flattened !

Are we to understand that Verity is self-IDing as a wheelchair user? Maybe I'm being unkind here and Verity has actually met with an appalling injury due to being rugby tackled by a big bloke and actually needs said wheelchair. But I can't help feeling we'd know about it if so.

Wheelchair rugby allows a certain number of able-bodied competitors. It is to make up the numbers so that a team can be formed, otherwise they'd struggle to find enough wheelchair users in a particular local area.

Presumably Verity is one of the able-bodied competitors.

Thank you for the clarification Popchyk. I imagine the able-bodied players are expected to give up their place if needed by a disabled player.

We’ve got the men’s England World Cup rugby on, on ITV. The hoardings around the stadium in Japan say ‘Keep Rugby Clean’ as part of World Rugby’s global anti doping campaign:
keeprugbyclean.worldrugby.org/

Can someone please explain how allowing self-identified doping into rugby, fits into this worldwide anti-doping strategy? it’s so obviously wide open to abuse and huge unfairness on non-doping players, which in rugby could cause very serious injury or death. I feel like I must be missing something very obvious here?