It’s not the feeling it’s the being
Women and girls who don’t like it should just go away and find something else to do.
Former Australian cricket captain Alex Blackwell says female players who do not want to play alongside a transgender athlete should find another sport to play.
…
In an exclusive interview with Macquarie Sport Radio‘s Cam Reddin, Blackwell urged women and girls who did not feel comfortable playing or changing alongside trans players to play something else.
“They can choose to go to a sport they’re more comfortable with. It’s up to them,” Blackwell told Macquarie Sports Radio.
“To deprive [transgender people] of access to sport would be wrong. We won’t be discriminating based on trans or gender diverse identity,” she said.
Blackwell rejected suggestions some female players may feel disadvantaged under these rules.
But it’s not about just feeling disadvantaged, let alone “uncomfortable.” It’s about being at a disadvantage: the well-known physical disadvantage without which men would never have been able to dominate women in the first place.
Yes, it’s always the women who should just find something else. Maybe trans women who find they are unable (or unwilling) to play on men’s teams, and don’t want to make their own league where they would be playing against individuals with equivalent size and physique should be the ones to go away?
Wait, what am I saying? Nope, it has to be the women. Always the women. Always the women giving way to something else. At least in the past when we were forced to sit down and shut up, the other groups pushing us backwards to wait in line behind them were genuinely disadvantaged.
What exactly are these ‘other’ sports that women are free to take up if they’re all icky and squeamish about changing in front of men? Are there any womens’ sports that have yet to admit transwomen? And, if there are any now, how long before the uncomfortable-getting-naked-in-front-of-men women have to find yet another new sport to play? And another? And another?
Nice way to play down the actual concerns of women, by the way. ‘Uncomfortable’ my arse!
Male transgender athletes are NOT “being deprived of access to sport.” They have full “access” to men’s sport. Female transgender athletes might be deprived of access to sport, because they use performance enhancing substances. But that doesn’t seem to be who is complaining. No, it’s the men. As always.
Again with this zombie lie! The person being trans is not the thing causing the objections, it’s the person being male.
But at least we can thank Alex for openly stating that if things come to a head, she wants the female sex to step aside for the male.
Okayyyy… can’t this be said to the trans women who find it ‘uncomfortable’ to play in the male league?