Why Hannah Mouncey wasn't picked for the world championships

[Clymene]

Mouncey says: "I can confirm that yes, I was left out of the team for the World Championships because there was a group of players within the team, supported by the team manager, who did not want me showering or using the change rooms before or after the game."

Good on those women who stood up against being forced to share showers and changing rooms with a male bodied person.

Obviously Hannah is feeling a bit aggrieved but is putting on a brave face: www.starobserver.com.au/opinion/people-will-do-whats-easy-over-whats-right-hannah-mouncey-speaks-out/190555

Oh, what a shame. The mean girls excluded her.

Oh Hannah you ar a bellend and a bully

Seems like sanity to me.

Good for them. I wouldn’t want to play against or shower with Hannah either.

A group of players who didn’t want a cheat with unfair biological advantages in what should be a single sex competition.

Also at the end Mouncey stayed 331 transwomen were murdered last year? In Australia? Seems unlikely.

Hmm I’d be surprised if the real reason wasn’t that the remainder of the team didn’t want the negative association of having someone with such an unfair weight, height and strength advantage on their side, and having any potential success undermined by that.

This article is full of 'statistics' that have been debunked again and again. When will some journalists do their job?

Mouncey is not excluded from sport, Mouncey has been excluded from the women's showers and changing room. Good on ya Aussie women.

I’m really glad to see that the women who didn’t want to change or shower with a male bodied person were supported by their team manager.

I think the tide is turning, and hopefully women can access sex segregated facilities/resources/sports/healthcare etc without being accused of being intolerant bigots because they don’t want male bodies in female spaces.

Apparently "you learn not to care" what others think.

Well, we already know that.

"the reason I’m not liked is because I told our manager, and by extension those players, exactly where he and they could go in trying to tell me where I could change and shower."

You didn't try to think how to 'be kind' as women are often told to be, then?

You didn't try to think of how you and the team could 'all get along'?

Obviously not, from the general tone of the article.

I'm glad the team and coach have done what's right.

Do that individual genuinely believe they are some sort of martyr? The entitlement in that piece is just unbelievable!

Big up to the women and coach 💪🏻

Did mouncey kinda even think why the teammates didn’t want mouncey in the locker room with them at any point

Mouncey's sense of entitlement to women's spaces, and Mouncey's complete lack of regard for these women's privacy, rights or safety reminds of interviews I've read with INCELS. So strange.

All I cam think is that Mouncey doesn't actually care @littlbrowndog. It's all about their rights, sod anyone else's.

Ironic headline “PEOPLE WILL DO WHAT’S EASY OVER WHAT’S RIGHT”

• that's exactly what's been going on in women's sports until now.

“PEOPLE WILL DO WHAT’S EASY OVER WHAT’S RIGHT”: HANNAH MOUNCEY SPEAKS OUT

Oh rly?

And the reason I’m not liked is because I told our manager, and by extension those players, exactly where he and they could go in trying to tell me where I could change and shower.

Hooray for reality.

You. Are. A. Cheat. (and a shocking risk to the other players).

”In this same conversation, it was clear that our coach knew what she was doing would not be received well. Despite the fact that prior to selection I passed every fitness test given to me with relative ease, she assured me that she would tell people that I wasn’t fit to play rather than the actual reason just given. She even acknowledged in that conversation how well I’d done in my rehab to warrant selection if the change room issue hadn’t been a factor”

The above paragraph seems very odd to me, and particularly this “she assured me that she would tell people that I wasn’t fit to play rather than the actual reason just given”

Surely the coach would only “assure” if she assumed Mouncey would be embarrassed by the real reason and felt Mouncey would want it covered up.

If events unfolded exactly as presented by Mouncey, the coach would have no reason to offer a cover-up.

I found myself wondering whether some vital piece of information has been omitted, such as that Mouncey would have been welcomed, had Mouncey been willing to use separate facilities, but refused.

Anyone else find it odd?

Mouncey et al actually believe they should be accepted into women's sports, if they're good enough.

People have been too compliant and too polite for too long.

Good. Right decision. Mouncey should be nowhere near women's showers, changing rooms or sports.

I dunno prion mouncey talks a lot about showering and changing in that article

But hard to say as we only see what mouncey has to say

Absolutely correct decision!

Another factor is that for team sports, the dynamic and cohesion within the squad is crucially important.

The whole ‘I wasn’t picked because I’m not liked’ argument shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how team sport works - no matter how good an individual player is, if they disrupt the functioning of the team as a whole, they’re a liability not an asset.