Women's World Cup and male players

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So angry about this.
The competition will be ruined.

Link?

Sorry - just seen there's another thread on this. Barbra Banda

This will hopefully peak many, at least 😩

We live in hope!

I've just listened to the guardian (I know, what should I expect) women's football weekly podcast and they touched on Zambia and were all waxing lyrical about how Banda could 'bulldoze' her way through the games and make a real difference. All the contributors I heard (Faye Carruthers, Suzanne Wrack, Robyn Cowen and Marva Kreel, take a women's football destroying bow) were excited but the prospect of a man being on the pitch and cheating for their country. I should be so excited by this World Cup, my girls all play football and they are loving the build up and cannot wait to see England play but I feel both anger and a bit of despair over this sort of shit the pundits are spreading. Is anybody calling it out?

I've just had a look on Wikipedia and can see they failed a gender test. "She has been cleared for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup because there in contrast to other competitions like athletics, no maximum level of testosterone is required in order to compete."

So FIFA rules have no maximum T? IIRC the rules allow any player at international level to compete if they are meeting the rules of their home nation. So some countries will be able to field players with DSD who are biologically male and other countries won't.

For the English FA, we have an opaque 'panel' that will decide on a case by case basis if a trans player can play in women's football. I'm still irked the FA trans inclusion guide includes cross dressers as part of their definition of trans. It's there in plain sight, it's about men's rights, not inclusiveness.

The more daylight we give this the better.
It's all very well people saying it's only Zambia- the next time it could be Spain or Germany and that would change everything.