There should be an open category and a female category.
As for the case of FtM then they would have to play in the open category as that would be the same as doping if they were to play in the female category
Curious to see if the USA Women’s team is gonna jump in on this.
This reaaaally shouldn’t be a complex situation at all, if anything each gender should have their own category. Ie male,female or trans. But then the trans community is rediculously small, so I doubt that be able to have their own
A trans division doesn’t make any sense as you’d have the same exact biological problem with ftm playing mtfs. So clearly it isn’t fairness that you care about unless you just didn’t think about it
It’s a complex issue that doesn’t have 1 simple answer. You cant ban all trans women from women’s sport - what about people that began transitioning before puberty? It’s not exactly something that hasn’t been debated before, so the FA really need to already have some guidelines in place.
What about women (like Caster Semenya) that have a naturally higher concentration of testosterone? The issue could fall down then on players essentially refusing to play because they think someone is trans.
As a trans woman who plays recreational football for a womens/nonbinary inclusive club, cisgender women regularly outpace, outmuscle, outjump, and generally outplay me. It is exactly the same in the other contact sport I play.
The divide is not as dramatic as it’s made out to be, and the assumption that every trans player is inherently better due to biology does a disservice to cis female athletes who are more than capable of competing equally. Nobody talks about how the only transfeminine weightlifter at the 2020 Olympics came last.
A lot of people forget that the reason women’s sports in general are behind is due to money and mysogyny. Women’s football wasn’t recognised by the FA until 1970 so it made it almost impossible for women to organise and play. They’ve had to start in 1970 where men started in 1860.
I’m enjoying the people telling the one trans woman here, that is actually involved in women’s sport, that she’s wrong.
How can someone with physical abilities of a man play in a womens division?
The physical attribute of that player gives him/her huge advantage over others. Especially when womens football is relatively developing right now.
There should be at least 3 categories.
Biological Males, Biological Females, Free for all (everyone can compete regardless of gender)OR they could have various trans categories the same way the special Olympics has different levels of handicap.
Not complex in any way