Three women injured by non-binary male in Canadian rugby game

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https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/warmington-female-rugby-players-complain-trans-opponent-hits-too-hard

'This transgender player, known as Ash — said to have registered as a non-binary person who identifies as female — stands about 5-foot-10 and weighs up to 220 pounds.

“We are women,” said a female player on the receiving end of a tackle. “It’s a whole other thing playing rugby against men.

“I had never been hit like that before, even at the competitive women’s level,” said the player. “There was so much more brute force. There are women who are bigger than him, but no girl hits like that. This is a strong human.”.

Riley Gaines was on an opposing team to Thomas.

Why do these sorry excuses always want to participate in women’s professional sport?
I really don’t understand how they justify it to themselves and how people on the outside are trying to justify it and bloody normalise it!

It's possible that insurance companies are forced to insure such games as "women's rugby" because of Canada's batshit laws on self ID and discrimination on the grounds of gender identity and gender expression.

I wonder if there’s any health & safety legislation in Canada which could be used to challenge the governing body for specifying a set of standards where these injuries are so much more likely to happen? As pp said, make the penalties financial, and then change will quickly follow

That’s true. I don’t know very much about Canadian insurance rules.

Although it may mean that the premiums for women’s rugby insurance rise significantly overall. The insurers aren’t going to keep accepting loss making business.

IADNAL, but I think Canadian health and safety legislation only applies to employees, so not to non-professional sport.

Which, of course, will be another blow to women's sport.

Besides the number of women who will no longer participate because they don't want to get injured or change and shower with a male-bodied person.

Hagosaurus · 30/06/2023 10:18

I wonder if there’s any health & safety legislation in Canada which could be used to challenge the governing body for specifying a set of standards where these injuries are so much more likely to happen?

It's monstrous travesty that any of these blokes are allowed to injure women in the first place. Who knows what will happen? Canada seems to be so far down the rabbit hole that the men will be judged to have a human right to demolish women, as far as I can see.

Rebel News go and speak to the team:

They are fucking nuts in Canada.

This article from Swimming World also confirms the pressure on UPenn women swimmers to keep quiet abou their concerns:

https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/lia-thomas-teammate-situation-is-unfair-and-ncaa-is-discriminating-against-cisgender-women-locker-room-discomfort/

Meant to add that Rugby Canada is an absolute disgrace.

Because to be cis-gendered you have to believe in the BS that is the current gender ideology.

Maybe your question should be why do the men in charge of these sports etc.

What @Delphinium20 said

Sue! Sue them, then sue them again! World Rugby has banned transwomen because its not safe for men to play with women.

I notice that the transwoman never made a tackle on camera - presumably because of how obvious his advantage would be.

The women speaking up against Lia are very brave

is there a way we can support them?

The only person in that clip who gave a sensible answer was the police officer, "What is a crime any more"? Indeed.

My suggestion for getting men to want to put a stop to the destruction of women's sport is this:

For every woman who loses a place on a team, a man at the same level in the same sport loses his place, i.e. he's banned from the sport for life (or until women's sport is restored). It could be done by drawing lots, so that no man feels safe while this goes on. The sport issue is an asymmetrical situation in many ways, but this might balance things slightly.

If this was introduced, there would be howls of, "That's unfair!" & "It's not the fault of the player who gets banned!". And those people would be correct. Just as it's not fair that a woman loses her place in her own sport, & it's not her fault that it happens.

@Passerillage I think it's because the cis men aren't adversely affected by this

If transmen played eg table tennis and beat the cis men, then I'm sure the cis men would be up in arms complaining huw unfair it is

Has the injuries part of this story been verified yet?