The Football Association says it is "working to find a resolution" after a transgender player stopped playing football when rival clubs refused to play against her.
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.
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.
I’m enjoying the people telling the one trans woman here, that is actually involved in women’s sport, that she’s wrong.
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.