Males over 12 now allowed to play in Ladies Gaelic Football

[Cailleach1]

Just that. Males who claim to be women or girls can now play against girls and women on the pitch. Women and girls already get a much smaller share of state funding towards female sports. And, now this bullsht. No details of how they plucked this out of their collective ases arrived at this policy. Having female only sport meant that women and girls were included in sport.

The GAA support the Irish language, but surely any other language can now 'identify' as Irish. The Irish flag must be flown, but again surely they should be 'inclusive' and let any other flag identify as the Irish flag.

We unfortunately have a Taoiseach (PM) who supports this destruction of female sports. When the IRFU stated they would prioritise safety and fairness for women, he asked them to reconsider those aims, and talk to the men who wanted to play in women's sports. In short, just walk all over women in Ireland.

The red herring testosterone level is there, as if it turned men into women.
I confirm that [insert name of Applicant] has:
Transitioned/or is transitioning (as appropriate) from male to female and intends on living their life as a female, and
During the previous 12 months, has a total testosterone level in serum equal to or less than 10 nanomoles per litre (nmol/L).

This is bullish*t. Probably 20 times than most women. 10nmol/L is in the normal range for men. There are probably males on the Irish rugby team with that level. Irrespective; strange times if they're pretending that this level, or any level or lack of testosterone made a female out of a male.

ladiesgaelic.ie/the-lgfa/about-us/governance/

Oh, how unexpected. @Flounder2022 has flounced before telling us what we're permitted to read.

Talk about hairsplitting. It was a Junior level match as in not the A teams rather than underage. But the fact is we have a grown man tackling a 16 year old girl in that photo.

He has become passionate about Ladies Gaelic Football despite being an Italian who only arrived here recently. And whose former employment was in a London BDSM club called Torture Garden.

You can get down off your stilts now pal.

It’s really hard to imagine how any sane person can look at that photo and not see a middle aged man playing against a teenage girl. And how any sane person who gives a damn about women’s/girls’ sports can think that’s safe, fair, or morally acceptable.

And yet there are people insisting that this is a woman and successfully advocating for h— inclusion in this women’s/girls’ team. Taking a place away from an actual woman or girl. Posing a far greater risk of injury to h— opponents. Just being a massively unsporting cheat.

And what about the changing rooms? Are there any parents deluded enough to actually cheerlead for the prospect of this individual stripping off and showering alongside their teenage daughters? I mean, in any other circumstances, school would make a referral to social services if parents were encouraging that sort of thing. But oh look, schools and social services have been captured too, so it’s all ok!

They all apparently think this really is a woman like any other. Or do they? I wonder. I wonder what they really think in the privacy of their own minds.

Aside from anything else there's a knowledge issue. Assuming most teams won't be inundated with transgender players, the majority of female players will never train with a transgender girl/woman before they face one as opposition. The risk of injury from a badly timed block will be much higher when a) a player is more likely to get their timing wrong as they won't be used to the extra speed and force a male bodied player can use, and b) the body following through on that kick is powered by male strength.

Camogie doesn't bear thinking about. Some great oaf clattering you with a bloody hurley !

I must ask the local gaa heads wtf is going on here.

A podcast about GAA sports has released an episode about the LGFA policy change:

[Interview with] Danielle Loughrey who plays football for Buncranna GAA and is also the PRO for the Donegal County Board and Sorcha, who is the Sports working team lead from the Countess advocacy group for women and children, about the new LGFA policy for transgender women in the woman's game.
anchor.fm/colm-parkinson/episodes/New-LGFA-transgender-policy-e1vanvv

I have dc who play, I coach underage and sit on the committee, if my girls are put in this position of playing against or with male bodied players, I'll be making my views very clear to the club and the parents. But I'm at the age where I don't give a fuck anymore. I've put so much into coaching girls, encouraging them into sport, focusing on strength in mind and body, what they can do because they have female bodies instead of what they can't. By fuck will I let that be trampled over.

twitter.com/SmallerFishGAA/status/1627957795004743682?s=19
Almost 18000 votes, 94% against this decision by the Lgfa.

twitter.com/Irish_WL/status/1627990217087934464?t=5BG986NCjHqaCEz7xTi4hA&s=19
That is a little disturbing to read. Usually I would think "coincidence' but I honestly cannot understand how the LGFA agreed to this decision.

I know what you mean; I genuinely don’t know what to think about Abbvie being a sponsor.

And I had no idea Jennifer Bilek was writing about the LGFA & its pharma sponsor/connections as long ago as August 2022.

Sisters will have to do it for themselves ... all the outrage and complaining is futile. The only way this will be defeated is if women unite and refuse to play in such circumstances... if we wait for the men to centre anything g other than male interests we'll be waiting forever

Thats a very disturbing read.
And not just for ladies Irish sport.

I've never been into the 'big pharma' conspiracy theories but that makes me wonder how many fingers have they got in other pies.
It can be the only logical explanation why anyone would agree to men in women's sports at any level.

Can they not get a sponsorship from tampax or bodyform we need those companies who make money from actual women to support the fight.

That's encouraging at least ! More like 99% once people understand the implications I bet ?

I don't understand who and why wants to destroy women's sports. This is so infuriating and frustrating! It's against any logic, common sense and science.
I've always been the "live and let live" one, but this is getting ridiculous. The more they get, the more they ask for and they are accommodated as soon as possible. And this self-identifying crap is a joke! We'll be worse than USA and Canada!

Yes @ladymactíre . Ourselves and our cousins in Wales and Scotland.

It's like a competition to make the English look boring and old fashioned. And to win woke points as Europe's liberal progressive poster child.

Except none of our fearless leaders have given it any thought. They just think it's easy and popular.

And way cheaper than building social housing. Or fixing schools and hospitals.

Performative is the word.

It's like a competition to make the English look boring and old fashioned

No competition needed - we are! 🤣

It's like a competition to make the English look boring and old fashioned. And to win woke points as Europe's liberal progressive poster child.
Yes the liberal drumroll has been steadily sounding for many years in Ireland. I think it’s a backlash to the influence of the Catholic Church. Ironic that it’s at the cost of women who were the CC’s biggest loser in the past.
The big pharma theory is not one I’ve heard before.

This is exactly right. It’s the wave that (laudably) pushed through the legal right to terminate and marriage equality without the recognition that these were correcting inequality, not putting women in danger. It’s horrifying.

Someone put a link in for a podcast where LGFA players were interviewed. Can someone put up the link again. It was a donegal podcast i think

Howya DumDeeDoh, was it this link you were looking?

[Interview with] Danielle Loughrey who plays football for Buncranna GAA and is also the PRO for the Donegal County Board and Sorcha, who is the Sports working team lead from the Countess advocacy group for women and children, about the new LGFA policy for transgender women in the woman's game.

anchor.fm/colm-parkinson/episodes/New-LGFA-transgender-policy-e1vanvv

A good synopsis from the countess

www.instagram.com/reel/CpCm4aTgqs_/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

The media silence is disgusting but not unexpected

<cheeky grin> Any chance of a screenshot for those of us not on Instagram??

twitter.com/SmallerFishGAA/status/1628077062324989963?s=20
A link to the interview.