Women's rugby Irish Times article.

[andyoldlabour]

Following coming across a post on a rather well known "fruity" forum, about a well known Canadian cyclist who wishes to play women's rugby, I found this article from the Irish Times, which is just full of inaccuracies.

www.irishtimes.com/sport/sport-still-grappling-with-the-question-of-fair-play-for-trans-athletes-1.4382223

I’ve always said that decent human beings do not go out of their way to make other humans uncomfortable or risk injury to them.

Nice to see the commentators aren't having it.

I thought this article was actually useful sunlight. Though maybe I have been reading this board too long to be blind to the clues?

Most of the articles was quotes from the different groups, and readers would make their own decision.

The only bit I noted as being awfully misleading was because it wasn’t in quotes. Trans athletes are those with a condition called gender dysphoria
That would be Rose of Dawn’s opinion, but isn’t universally agreed by modern TRAs, hence the objection to a gd diagnosis being a requirement for a GRC. Inclusion of a quote from one of the TRA groups about gender euphoria would have been sunlight too.

Any article that includes our cyclist Sherpa is good?

Cyclepath wants to play women's rugby?! FFS.

@HavelockVetinari

Cyclepath wants to play women's rugby?! FFS.

Touch rugby, thankfully, at least so far.

"That often results in gender reassignment surgery and hormone treatment."

That is blatently untrue, the numbers having any kind of surgery is very low.

"Rugby, inevitably, has stepped up to face a question where there is currently no clear answer."

Really? No clear answer, the majority of the public, athletes, coaches, scientists know what should happen.