Women's Ice Hockey Team fields an ineligible pla....a man, they field a man

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When I read the headline I thought this must be in Tranada, but no

https://archive.ph/RiKXo

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/2026/04/21/ice-hockey-player-flouts-transgender-ban-but-result-stands/

Outrageous.

What an absolute piss take, like it’s not a dangerous enough game as it is, - let’s just a brick shithouse bloke in.

There should be sanctions on teams that flout the rules. It’s cheating as well as dangerous for the female players. I’d ban them for the rest of the season, though it stifles opportunity for female team mates. As a minimum they should forfeit every game, with the win going to the opposing team.

I used to do roller derby but had to quit the women's league because it was too demoralizing, and of course the same people were in coed, so I stopped that too.

Physical danger is an issue, of course, but the embarrassment of it all is awful too. It's like being a little girl again and realizing that your sport isn't taken half as seriously as boys.

The match happened in September. It appears the man has been withdrawn from the women's roster. Hopefully, if he's still good enough, he's back playing in his previous, men's, team. Though tbh I don't really care what he does.

I don't understand why EIH are allowing the result to stand. A similar occurrence in women's football saw the results expunged. Cynically though I do wonder what might have happened with the football results if the team hadn't flounced.

Agree, both team and player should be sanctioned and the EIH should be sued. Someone could have been seriously injured.

From the article:

“When contacted by Telegraph Sport, Greyhounds – who lead their division – said they had not lodged such a protest with EIH.

Amazons did not respond to requests for comment from the club or the transgender player.

When EIH and IHU announced a new gender eligibility policy last year, Greyhounds and Amazons were among six teams who issued a joint statement denouncing the ban on those born male playing in women’s ice hockey, branding it a “contravention of the Equality Act 2010 and ice hockey’s commitment to inclusivity”.”

I am reading this as: the two clubs involved are being managed by people who reject the new policy and therefore the club who would have standing to make the complaint won’t make the complaint that would allow the governing body to take action.

I would expect that the governing body needs to modify that clause in their policy to widen the group of who can make formal complaints.

Perhaps there is another team who can make a complaint even if the Amazons only put the player on the ice in matches where the other team’s management will not complain, because that makes it unfair competition for the rest of the teams in that league group.

either way, something needs to be done so that teams who refuse to follow the policy aren’t allowed to get away with that behaviour in the future. It is also something to watch for with any policies that come out that restrict who can complain

Both teams complained about the single sex ruling when it was announced, wanting to keep the ‘inclusivity’ of ice hockey. Well looks like one team has been bitten on the bum by the inclusivity they wanted.

As ever in these situations no inclusivity for the woman who lost her place on the team to a man.

Ice hockey. Of all the sports.

They will kill someone.

Are the team in question flouting the rules because the man's physical advantages are helping them win? How sporting of them.

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=803115975785573&id=100082615329213

A male who played for the women’s ice hockey team, Solent Amazons, in breach of Great Britain Ice Hockey policy and UK law, has been removed from the team rosters following an intervention by Women's Rights Network.

We were contacted by a concerned player who was unable to raise the matter with the team because of fears of reprisals.

We immediately alerted the ice hockey authorities to the breach of their policy.

The player, Chantelle Air (formerly Peter Scovell) was removed from the rosters, and the Solent Amazons female team is now all-female.

Before joining Solent Amazons, Air had played ice hockey in men’s and mixed-sex teams.

Thank you Great Britain Ice Hockey for taking this seriously.

For the fixture referenced, the player in question was considered eligible at the time of the match based on the information available to the relevant registration/competition processes.

Does this mean that Solent Amazons snuck in the trans identifying man to play just by using a female name? Yet the whole team and managers knew full well that this was breaching regulations.

What is it about gender ideology that causes good people to lose all sense of morality, empathy, compassion or a single thought for actual women being impacted? Not to mention plain common sense.

Looking into the person when they played for the men’s and mixed teams they were recorded as 5 feet 11 inches tall. As a TW 5 feet 7 inches. Not sure what medication they are on but if it carries on like this they’ll be needing to shop in the children’s section soon.