Two opposing views on football’s transgender ban

Beginning on June 1, 2018, transgender women will no longer be able to play in women’s football in England, according to the English Football Association.

The FA now allows only those born biologically female to play in women’s football in the wake of the UK Supreme Court’s ruling on April 15 that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex.

Sources tell BBC Sport that the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is also expected to outlaw transgender women from the women’s game, while the Scottish FA has also announced that it is outlawing transgender women.

Before joining a women’s team in 2017, Washington played football in the men’s Sunday League. One of 28 trans women who had registered to play English amateur football was her.

It shocks me, she told BBC Sport.

This means that we are no longer able to do the things we used to be able to do for decades, as many other football players have done.

I stopped playing the men’s game ten or twelve years ago because I no longer believe it was a safe transition.

I don’t feel like I can compete with men my kind of age and with comparable physical characteristics when I occasionally play a five-a-side kickabout with men because of the effects hormones have had.

There simply aren’t enough transgender people in society to support our own sports or spaces, according to the truth.

A small number of people who aren’t causing a problem and are simply going about their lives are receiving a lot of attention for this.

Realistically, “It is a de facto ban for transgender women playing in women’s football,” according to the statement.

For those people to return and play in the men’s game, if they ever even did play in the men’s game, will be very mentally challenging and potentially dangerous.

Really, this is essentially kicking those people out of football. “

The FA has sent transgender players a letter that is immediately outlawed, according to BBC Sport.

Davis, 62, has long argued against the inclusion of trans women in women’s sport and won a silver medal at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

She stated to BBC Sport, “I’m thrilled that women are finally getting their sport back. I’m hoping cricket will follow.”

The science is unchanged, they say. Male kicks 50% harder than females, they are taller, they have bigger hands and feet, and they are more dynamic, especially in the goal.

Parents who have heartbroken children who are self-harming because of a season-ending injury have spoken to me. Or autistic daughters who have received six-match suspensions because they realized the opposition has a male player.

Many people should be offered an apology, he said.

“It affects 50% of people who are actually women.” This was just about the integrity of sport, and as a biological female you are entitled to that integrity in the same way as a biological man, which applies to all young girls and all women who play football, especially at grassroots, pathways, and junior competitions.