@Fukuraptor
No matter how slight Peter's football playing friend is, they are taking a place on a team which ought to be available to a female player. It's not as if males do not have enough football playing opportunities in this country that they have to take spots for females.
I was thinking that throughout that part of the discussion. If a male person is so small and weak that they wouldn’t get a space on a men’s team, we don’t shove them into the women’s team.
And all the women on that team might accept and love that person. But perhaps that might be helped along by the fact that despite the small size, there remains some physical or training advantage that is very useful to their team’s success. Of course that person would be welcomed if they were reasonably personable.
But there was a thread on here yesterday about a woman finding two male players on an opposing women’s team, and how demoralised she felt when competing against people with such an obvious unfair advantage. It’s not only the women on the team which includes male people who are affected by that decision.
I know Posy probably wasn’t the right person for that particular discussion (I think you could say the same about Peter Tatchell, to be fair) but I love the way she continues to be entirely uncompromising and states her point so clearly and in such a matter of fact way. It takes all the imposed “shock factor” out of the equation. So many people agree with her, but fear to say so out loud.
Seeing her do so without cringing or looking as if she is fearful of what she is saying is psychologically healthy and an inspiration to those who fear to speak out. She changes the atmosphere on this debate everyone time she does it.