Trans footballer who broke a woman's knee quits team and threatens lawsuit over female players refusing to play against them

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So as the title says a biological male footballer who was allowed by the fa to play on a woman's team with the inevitable consequences for a female player has thrown his tous out of the pram because the women's teams refuse to play against him and is threatening to sue the other clubs so he can play against 16 and 17 year old girls and women

Transgender woman footballer who broke knee of a player quits team https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12771191/Transgender-woman-footballer-left-opponents-terrified-broke-knee-player-blocking-shot-quits-team-threatens-sue-discrimination-rivals-refused-compete-against-her.html?ito=native_share_article-nativemenubutton

Well it wouldn’t surprise me. The BBC are knee deep in this woke obsession, and so are usually very biased in their reporting.

Needham said: “I sincerely hope that this issue of perceived discrimination against me can be resolved peacefully...

Peacefully? So what's going to happen if it's not resolved peacefully? Sounds like a threat to me.

Yes, that's why I mentioned it. I have complained to the BBC, not that they take a blind bit of notice.

In different sporting news International Cricket Council are no longer allowing TW to play on women’s teams.

I wonder how that'll go down in Australia and New Zealand?

Bit by bit, drip drip drip. Sports bodies are at least beginning to understand why men shouldn't be able to compete with women and acting to prevent it. Soon, I hop, they will all find safety in numbers.

The article says that if he had dropped out Rossendale 'Ladies' wouldn't have got a game before next February!

Rossington (rossendale is in Lancashire). They should have kept to having a team of 11 women in the first place.

Let's hope the insurers are paying attention. And refusing to insure clubs that allow men to compete against women. That'll sort it.

😁- I like your DD's style. Future judge.

I was wondering about that too. I imagine there was a huge amount of social pressure - maybe they had a few full on handmaidens and the rest of them were afraid to speak up.

But still though! What if other teams started recruiting men to keep up - then his teammates wouldn’t be safe from having their own bones broken any more. I always find the inability of TRAs to think about the long term consequences of what they’re doing quite astonishing. Especially when it comes to women’s sports, where it’s so obvious.

The position that some sporting bodies, inc the FA is so clearly ludicrous. The sport is segregated by sex - except when it isn’t.

<I’m still reeling from being told by England Hockey that it’s fine to let special men play in women’s teams because ‘players come in all shapes, sizes and abilities’ 😱>

I play football and as a much younger woman, we did have a transgender female in our team. It was an issue at first and players did complain, not about the fact that it was completely unfair which it was) but they felt uncomfortable in the changing rooms. However there was nothing they could do about it so we got on with it and did get used to it.
The player did face a lot of abuse every single week and we did actually get quite defensive

Oops pressed post before I'd finished...

We did get defensive for any abuse she would face and stick up for her.

I have to agree though we were at a quite big advantage at times due to her strength. I used to hate training at her especially when I was in goal and she would smash the ball at me very hard from very close range. I did hate that and refused to go in goal against her after that.

Sorry @ErrolTheDragon that was me ✋️, mis-countying they/them. I forgot the Telegraph link too and there was a least one bad typo. I'll try to do better.

The players want to play in a womens match and dont perceive their opponent to be a woman.

What he is demanding is that the law forces others to believe he is a woman. With the help of the government and institutions he can get legal recognition, but can governments, the law and football association get the population to believe?

The player did face a lot of abuse every single week and we did actually get quite defensive

I wonder if it was because you knew as a team you had an unfair advantage? You traded your own saftey when training for an advatage when playing, so were defensive about the criticism?

@chutneysauce so you didn't want to play against them, but defended them playing to other people who didn't want them playing... dont you see that as hypocritical?

Your one who’s been playing for Kent won’t be happy… (interesting, incidentally, that they supposedly don’t want to be tested to find out if they have an intersex condition as opposed to, you know, low testosterone 🤨)

I didn't like the abuse she got, which is quite different to objecting to someone playing for/against you. I've just been brought up in a way that you can get your point across without resorting to abuse. I absolutely didn't think it was fair for her to play but at the time it was all within the rules.

Also whilst it was unfair we were getting whipped every week so it goes to show one player doesn't make that much a difference. However it was unsafe. As I say I didn't enjoy training with her. I was 18 though and as I knew it was in the rules there wasn't much I could do about it.
I will say I feel it's quite common now at my level too to see a transgender player as we see it a lot with opponents. There's definitely a massive difference and it is unfair.

but they felt uncomfortable in the changing rooms. However there was nothing they could do about it so we got on with it and did get used to it.

This bit in particular is absolutely horrendous.

Women utilised as a resource, against their wishes/feelings.

I mean, fucking hell, it just lays it out bare.

I am going back many years ago to be fair but this hasn't really changed.
People just went and got changed elsewhere in the end.

but they felt uncomfortable in the changing rooms. However there was nothing they could do about it so we got on with it and did get used to it.

What like women in Iran 'got used to' having to wear the hijab after 1979 - that kind of getting used to?

It's a slow creep back to the dark ages where women don't have human rights. They start with women not being able to say 'no' to men seeing them undress and it goes from there. It's the thin end of the wedge.

This is what it's all about really, women not having the freedom to say 'no' to men.

I play football and as a much younger woman, we did have a transgender female in our team. It was an issue at first and players did complain, not about the fact that it was completely unfair which it was) but they felt uncomfortable in the changing rooms. However there was nothing they could do about it so we got on with it and did get used to it

So young women were forced to use their bodies to provide validation for a man's claimed 'women identity' and basically told to put up and shut up.

They could have collectively refused to get changed in front of a man.
The coach could've told the man to change somewhere else.
Or, even better, the man could've fucked off and played on a man's team.

But you didnt get your point accross.

You practice against a man who hurt you, and changed alongside a man you felt uncomfortable with.