He wants to be celebrated
Man thrilled at opportunity to mangle women while playing rugby.
Female rugby players in Alberta, Canada, are expressing concerns for their safety after a male who only recently began to identify as a “woman” was permitted to join their team. The women say their club is more worried about “discrimination” lawsuits than their potential injuries.
Players for the Clanswomen, a female rugby team in the Clansmen Rugby Club (CRC) and under the jurisdiction of the Edmonton Rugby Club, told Reduxx they were only recently informed by a coach that Maeryn Gellhaus, 48, was allowed to join their team.
Several members of the Clanswomen, who are being kept anonymous for their protection, explained that they knew Gellhaus had previously played on a men’s team in the CRC before he began to identify as transgender. He also reportedly coaches a youth team in the CRC.
He only started “identifying” as female four months ago, and even that is only part-time. Thin end of the wedge innit. Men might as well just move to the women’s teams without bothering to claim to be trans.
The anonymous female players said that Gellhaus was allegedly informed that several of the women on the team were uncomfortable with his presence and worried about being injured playing with a male. Days later, Gellhaus took to Instagram again, complaining that some of the women had been less than accomodating to him.
“There are a lot of girls that have been absolutely amazing to me there. But there is an underlying feeling that some don’t want me there. Badly. It hasn’t been figured out yet. I’m trying to decide if it’s worth the struggle. I want to be celebrated, not tolerated,” he wrote.
He wants to be celebrated for endangering women and spoiling their sport. It’s all about him, you see.
Several of the women have approached Canada’s governing body for Rugby with concerns about safety, but were told that the club must follow the current guidance, which enables players to choose a team based on their self-identified gender “at both recreational and competitive levels.”
Rugby Canada regulations claim to “resolve gender identity and gender expression issues” via their discipline and complaints policy. The policy does not provide any mention of the safety of female players matched with or against males.
Pffff women’s safety – who cares?
“Girls.” Women in their 20s or 30s (I assume), and he calls them “girls”. Sorry, dude, you’re not one of them, you don’t get to do that.
“The time has come for you to take the last step. You must love Big Brother. It is not enough to obey him: you must love him.”
I want to be a player of a sport, and I want to be a winner. Alas, winning has always been for some reason out of reach for me. However, I reckon I’ve found the answer.
Sport should be what I call ‘non-istish and non-ismish.’ For example, racists and their racism should be shown the door and helped along with the front end of a boot. Sexists and their sexism likewise. Ditto for ageists and their ageism. So, being against all such above, I reckon that my best chance of winning at football (any code) is to join a team of kids of primary school age, say 5-10. Even better, a girls’ team in the 5-10 division.There I can throw my weight about, and win.! Win! Win!
Win, do you hear me? WIN.!!!!!!! THAT’S WHAT IT’S ALL ABOUT.!
I identify as whatever age you need to be to play competitive T-ball. I could hit a homer every time cause they play on small diamonds and field the ball badly. And think of how many RBI’s I could have. That’s runs kids could not score without me. Are you really going to deny kids those runs?
Then achieve something noteworthy, without cheating.
But what is he to do when the cheating is the achievement?