Contact
He said to them, quite honestly, no.
They told him he could do coaching or reffing, but no, he said, if he did that it would mean he was accepting “that trans women can’t play this sport.”
No it wouldn’t. That’s a lie. The usual lie. It would mean he was accepting that men (including men who identify as trans) can’t play women’s rugby. Not the whole sport, just the women’s sport. So, he’s lying, in the usual way.
Then he goes on to admit that the whole point for him is bashing women. “So they were just like, ok we’re gonna move on now, as a trans woman you can play touch rugby, you can coach, you can ref. You just can’t play contact.”
He wants to play contact, god damn it. He wants to be able to injure the women.
I read the linked material from Julie-Anne Curtis regarding the “apartheid” comments. He argues against there being a separate “trans” category, and he likens keeping trans-identified males out of women’s sport to apartheid. I don’t think he quite realizes the arguments apply actually better for not having a women’s sport category at all, so I don’t think he can be described accurately as advocating against sex categories, even if that is where his arguments lead. He is totally oblivious, in the video and in writing, of the possibility of trans-identified males playing on the men’s team; he equates being unable to play on the women’s team with being unable to play, period. Given that, I don’t get the impression that doing away with sex categories would be satisfactory, since he very much wants to be part of a group named “women”.
Why wouldn’t he? He’s clearly a mixed-up kid. Probably thinks they are somehow responsible for his own identity confusion.
And of course halfway through they have to stop to inform us of how many trans kids are suffering from depression and how many have considered suicide, as if that’s somehow relevant to the question at hand.
By all means, get them the therapy they need, but I don’t think anyone ever prescribed women’s rugby as a treatment for depression.
Good thing, too. Rugby would have broken me. I am not at all athletic; my entire sports career consists of match three games on the computer.