Women's football. Next?

[namechangeranonymouse]

I was watching the women's england team last night and thought to myself, wouldn't it be easy for a team of transwomen (aka men) to take over all the female places in the team? I mean we (England) would win every women's game if we had strapping transgender footballers playing for us.

Points up the ridiculousness of the current sporting mass blindness thats being touted.

No, absolutely right chopin

I don't think any transwomen 'transition'' purely to play sport, but the fact is - once transitioned - you may find yourself competing at a level several orders of magnitude beyond what you were previously capable of, and I imagine that could be quite seductive, as well as validating in your new gender.

Although this is Rugby not Football, this has just come to light.

twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1513994249427030018?s=21&t=DZWSzSvGye9vN_l75uleWw

Guam: 3 female athletes were injured in a Rugby game by a transgender athlete who was “aggressive in nature.”

The head coach says “body size, body strength.. completely dominate any girl that I have on my team”

Why do females even bother playing?

While rugby is obviously a higher risk contact sport, football still has risk of significant injury with a male on the field in a female game.

@fridgepants

Are you suggesting a male player transitions purely to do this? If so, you should note the gulf in money and esteem between the men's and women's game pretty much everywhere.

There are 12 fully professional women's teams in England. The salary is considerably less than men's players in the lower league divisions. There would be absolutely no benefit for a skilled male footballer to transition purely in the hope of playing on a women's team.

There is no financial incentive for an elite male footballer to give up playing in the men's premier league to play on a female team in any division. That's true.

However, that's not what the OP was talking about. The OP was musing about the international possibilities that could open up for a mediocre male player who had no chance of being picked for the men's England team.

Premiership footballers do not compete to play for their country in the World Cup or the European Cup purely for the money; they're rich enough from domestic matches. It's the prestige and glory of international matches they're interested in.

When you take into account that other sports have allowed male transitioners to play on both men's and women's teams, it's possible that such a player wouldn't even have to sacrifice the dayjob as a player in Division 1 or 2.

Or an elte player who is now too old to play with the men.