Not necessarily in that order of course:
In the latest case to raise major questions about the Football Association’s ongoing failure to ban those born male from the women’s game, the 17-year-old has been left distraught at being charged by her county FA over a remark made during a match against a trans-inclusive club.
She was charged last month with saying, “Are you a man?”, “That’s a man”, “Don’t come here again”, or similar comments during what was a pre-season friendly back in July.
In documents seen by Telegraph Sport, the girl admits asking a player she describes as having “a beard”, “Are you a man?” She also admits asking the referee for guidance about the player’s eligibility to participate in women’s football “given my concern for my safety after already suffering a number of overly physical challenges”.
But she has denied doing so constituted transphobia or that she made any comments that could be construed as such, while Telegraph Sport understands the referee also heard nothing he deemed to be discriminatory.
From what we’ve got here it’s not what was said at all. Rather, it’s what meaning to put on what was said.
#And, you know, people say some pretty strong things on playing fields. Asking someone with a beard whether they’re a man is not one of those strong things. This is the weebles having a fit of the vapours over nothing – sex and travel mateys.
‘A girl footballer with suspected autism is facing a ban of up to 12 matches for asking an adult transgender opponent: “Are you a man…’
This autism thing sounds like it might come in handy. Where can we get some?
As always there’s a lot that’s not being said about this story. Under those circumstances it seems quite reasonable to ask what a bloke is doing on the pitch.
And this is bollocks:
It sounds a lot like coercion and she shouldn’t have to accept those increased risks.
If professional rugby players can sue the authorities for a lack of care I look forward to the FA being taken to the cleaners over this issue one day.
It would seem the county FA is worth sweet FA.
I’ve decided that I’ve got to come out and reveal myself as a superbeing from the planet Zogg. I have many superpowers which have been rendered inoperative by so much CO2 in the atmosphere. Anybody who calls me a looney should be locked up for 30 years.
I’ve decided after 69 years it’s safe for me to disclose my true self as the human race has become sufficiently progressive for me to be secure and live a happy life on this planet. I’m starting to feel quite at home…
The great thing about people with (perhaps mild) autism is that they call spades spades. Er, man. Can’t be having that now, can we, in this era of turbo-euphemism and pretence?
It’s interesting because footballers are more usually accused, generally by opposing supporters, of being lacking in the testicular department.
Isn’t a belief in the immutability of sex now protected under the Equality Act, as determined by the courts in the Maya Forstater case? Sounds like this girl needs the Free Speech Union to assist her.
Christ on a bike! I know I’m an old fuddy-duddy but WTF are the FA doing letting blokes play women’s football? The rule should be simple – “If you have a “Y” chromosome in your genetic structure you cannot play against biological women!” Full Stop. It makes toss-all difference whether they’re pre- or post-op, or what their testosterone levels are… If you’ve made it through puberty with the M&2V intact, you’re a bloke and have all the physical “advantages” (in terms of physical sport anyway) that males have over females.
Feckin crazy!
a remark made during a match against a trans-inclusive club
That’s what happens when you give them an inch, they’ll take a mile to replace the half inch they lost.
I think we’ve all had enough of this experiment in tolerating deranged, shrieking degenerates.
Cancel LGBTQIA, and jail anyone who tries proselytising their perversions to the under-18’s, like what proper countries do.
BiG, and referees are often accused of being rather partial to masturbation.
a remark made during a match against a trans-inclusive club
Hold on, shouldn’t both sides have been trans-inclusive clubs? Simple solution, then you only get women playing women, men playing men, and men playing women playing men playing women.
“turbo-euphemism”: big tick to Norman.
I also like Billy Connolly’s “pretendy” used as an adjective as in ‘Spud Murphy’s pretendy expertise in economics’. I suppose ‘feigned’ would do but it lacks the implication that Spud’s claim is childish.
Watching the Spurs game at the mo’ (well, not at the mo’ exactly, it’s half time). Had an indoctrination presentation before the game from the FA, telling us to kick out racism and embrace diversity. Then, with one exception, they dutifully ‘took the knee’ before kick off.
Twenty two blokes on the pitch, three white English players…..
Addolff – why were you watching?
Unsubscribe.
FWIW
Premier league footballers are all kneeling like performing seals today because it’s black history month again (although with all the pride flags it’s hard to be sure).
Presumably the young multi-millionaires are supporting a demographic that’s so cruelly and unfairly underrepresented in this most highly paid of sports.
Sorry Addolff.
For some reason my page hadn’t updated to show your comment.
Steve @ 12.46. I was raised in a West Ham home and still have a claret and blue rattle I painted as a five year old, but changed to Spurs when I was about seven.
Either would count as child abuse these days…….