First transgender manager ignites row by signing biologically male goalkeeper for women’s team

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Article in the Telegraph:
www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2024/08/31/transgender-manager-signs-biological-male-keeper-women-team/

And protests from sex realists on Twitter. These men are making their dislike of women really clear now, aren't they?

Looks like the team are revolting - excellent:

archive.ph/2024.09.01-190637/www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2024/09/01/sutton-transgender-goalkeeper-football-match-postponed/

Source: x.com/okaybiology/status/1830326235118911595?s=61

sounds promising in theory but there must be a risk that Ms Clark will double down, replacing non-handmaiden squad members with more men.

"Sutton United abruptly postponed their scheduled match at Ebbsfleet United on Sunday amid a mounting furore over the signing of Blair Hamilton, a biological male, as their women’s goalkeeper.

The notice of postponement was issued so late, within three hours of the scheduled 2pm kick-off time, that Ebbsfleet ended up donating their matchday supplies to a local food bank. While Sutton offered no explanation for their failure to assemble a team, it is understood that the cancellation is related to increasing disquiet around Hamilton’s involvement and the implications for sporting fairness."

Within hours of Telegraph Sport reporting on Hamilton’s controversial call-up by Lucy Clark, Sutton Women’s transgender manager, the club sent an email to Ebbsfleet at 11.12am confirming that they had been unable to put a team together but offered no reasons why. Parents of several players in the London & South East Premier Division, where Sutton compete, have privately expressed unease about a player carrying the physiological advantages of male puberty competing in women’s football. "

I bet the women are bloody fuming at losing their goalie! I hope they all told Clarke to shove the match where the sun doesn't shine

Trans identified male's needs & desires conflict with women's. Here's an excellent but headbanging example of it.

Lucy Clarke is only interested in an opportunity to validate LCs identity, in this case opening up the team to more TiMs.

It's something which a few years ago would have been laughable. Now it's difficult to see a funny side, I can only see this as cheating and Men's rights.

Well, here's a quote from him at the end of the more recent Telegraph article

Clark, 51, has shown little compunction about making such choices, saying in 2022: “At some point we will field a team solely of trans women for the first time in history. How good is that?”

A team solely made up of men! Can't see that catching on 🤔

Can't they just sack their manager?

As Sharron Davies says, women need to come together and say No.

The FA's rules forbid you from complaining about trans identifying males in female games. Teams can actually be fined if their supporters point out the reality of someone's sex on the pitch. The FA are complicit in destroying women's football and putting lives at risk. I hope the female players at Sutton have good support.

I hope the entire Men's (Wo)Man City team announce they are ladies purely to thwart the fucker. We could also have (Wo)Man United, Fey-ton Orient, Tottenham (Am I)Hotspur?, (In)Celtic, Queer Park Rangers.

think about Newcastle United's nickname

I think I'd have gone with "Your goalie is a fella" to the tune of "the referee's a wanker" but fans at the women's games tend to be more supportive of their own team than abusive of the opposition, so it's unlikely to catch on.

Pleased the women have made their feelings clear. The other teams in the league were also apparently licking off about the risk of injury so if he recruits a entirely male team they may not get a match.

Not quite "meh" about Clark as the manager.
A male manager with no previous experience displaced a female manager who did have experience. It's one thing to draw on the huge pool of experienced male coaches in the absence of, or in preference to the tiny pool of talented but mostly inexperienced women coaches, quite another to make an appointment which has the appearance of having been made because the male claimed a special identity.

And yeah - stay out of the women's changing room, Clark.

The women - Sutton United, all the women footballers in the team in their division, should take the FA to court. It's their policy which is enabling this. I'm impressed that Sutton Women are protesting, Hastings FC Women (team Blair Hamilton previously played for) were happy about it. And no wonder - their goal difference improved massively from the season BH arrived.

A Hastings women fan was banned from the ground for pointing out that the goalkeeper was male.

Fair point

I doubt very much all the players from Hastings FC were happy about it, but the fear of saying anything is very real

Oh FFS. It's a less glitzy version of Ru Paul's drag race.

Any male player v female player is going to be dangerous if both are committing. I've seen a fair amount of nasty injuries while watching my (EFL) team and I'd hate to see the result if one of the parties was a woman. But I do take your point about keepers, last season an opposition keeper took out our striker jumping up with hands/arms out at head height and landed on our guy as they both fell - he was out for weeks with concussion/collarbone/shoulder injury.

(Add insult to injury the ref gave a foul AGAINST our guy as he was stretchered off.)

Ms Clark is the one who sits in police cars with signs and bitches about JKR right?

I think Ms Clark should carry on managing as they see fit and showing who they are and how much they respect women.

The average height of goalkeepers in the 2022 men’s World Cup was 6ft 2in.

The average height of goalkeepers in the 2023 women’s World Cup was 5ft 8in.

just sayin…

A team solely made up of men! Can't see that catching on 🤔

😂

So rather than taking the time that Clark had to train up female talent or make another female ‘loan’, Clark allowed Clark’s political agenda to shine.

This is what has happened whenever a male person becomes a Women’s Officer as an example. It means that female people’s rights and needs becoming a secondary consideration. Sutton U FC should be ashamed.

Although, I just realised which team this is. This is the team that I suspected of having a male player in one of the female children’s teams. It was before I knew what was happening.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/sep/04/sutton-postponed-game-because-of-safety-fears-in-transgender-row

mealy mouthed statement from
sutton United

“We understand the sensitivity surrounding the issue of trans women in sports, and the club have followed all Football Association protocols and have confirmed that the player’s involvement is fully compliant with all legal and regulatory guidelines”

all of which they can say because the FA are captured cowardly fuckwits. I note all but one of the directors are male https://www.suttonunited.net/about/governance/

They are such knobheads. Protocols and guidelines, indeed - as if that was the issue.
He's a man!

I am full of respect for the women of the Sutton Women's team.

I am full of contempt for the men of Sutton Women's team.

This

Ah yes,the incorruptible bastion of fairness that is the FA.