Representatives of Goal Diggers undertook a 12-mile walk from their training pitches in Haggerston Park to Wembley Stadium to deliver their open letter to the FA. In it they demanded a reversal of the ban on transgender women from women’s football and described the FA’s decision as a “pitiful and weak response” to the supreme court’s ruling.
And did the FA immediately capitulate? Reader, surprisingly they did not!
Mark Bullingham, the chief executive of the Football Association, has written to London grassroots football club Goal Diggers FC explaining the governing body’s decision to ban transgender women from women’s football “was not an ideological judgment, but a difficult decision” based on legal advice that a “change in policy was necessary” following the supreme court ruling which said the term “woman” in the Equality Act refers only to a biological woman.
So there! Of course, hiding behind the ‘big boys did it and ran away’ excuse, instead of coming out and saying ‘We should never have gone along with this nonsense in the first place!’ So brave…
Goal Diggers player Becky Taylor-Gill (Ed: yes, Reader, just the sort of smug white liberal woman who you'd expect to find hurling gasoline on this fire so she can preen about her conscience) said the FA needs to stand more firmly with transgender women.
“Their motto is football for all. Put your money where your mouth is,” said Taylor-Gill. “Put your lawyers in the situation where they can fight for football to be for all.
Why should they lose money on an unwinnable case so men who dress up as women can get their kicks in the female dressing rooms, Becky? Given they are losing money already by aligning themselves with this wretched movement?
“We’ve created a safe space for trans women in our women’s team that we really cherish and they should feel welcomed. This decision will just push more trans women out of football at a time when that’s what they really need.”
Pushing men out of female spaces is only going to increase, because they never should have been in them in the first place.
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As it, apparently, took some time for the FA to acknowledge there is a place for female football teams, why can't the FA fast track a scheme for transgender football teams, so blokes dressed as women can play other blokes dressed as women? The revenue raised, from those paying to watch or support them, should be interesting.
Penseivat
The claim that trans women (or in other words, men) won't be able to participate in sports if women's sport is denied to them is so much hogwash. They are men, they can participate along with other men in men's sports. If they're not good enough to compete, train harder.
Or do what I did, accept that you are extremely average, that winning isn't all that important and participate at your own level.
It appears that these 'men' know that they will never be good enough to compete with other men so they play with the girls where they know they will be superior rather than destroying what the girls are doing they need to man up and admit they are only third rate or less.
Another case of the tail still expecting to wag the dog.
I doubt they'd even attract the mob of malcontents and misfits that always show up to picket places like the Supreme Court!
They can't do that - the main driver for them is extreme narcissism and being told 'No' shatters their worldview.
And the women need to start refusing to compete. But sadly, they appear to lack the courage to do this, aside from some notable exceptions.
Indeed!
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