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OK - FUCK AUSTRALIA too. Oz sporting associations just teamed w Gender Lobby to destroy women's sports

submitted 3 years ago by BEB from twitter.com

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[–]Doobeedoo661 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago* (2 children)

I was completely deflated the moment I read the news, astounded at the secrecy of it all. However, I will say this. With regards to the AFL, my understanding is they’ve actually made it harder for TW to engage in women’s completion in both the seconds and community level. I suspect this may be the case with a few other contact sports involved.

They’ve extended the elite level gatekeeping across the board, in essence, someone like Hannah Mouncey would no longer qualify to play in his previous local VFL capacity due to his size, strength and a few other measurements exceeding those of the average female player. Don’t get me wrong I’m quietly ropeable these policies were even announced.

I contacted my local Girls Under 16s footy club and inquired about these new measures. The administrator told me that the South East Peninsula clubs will not be caving to any changes. Three years ago they established MIXED teams so that neither the boys nor girls would be inconvenienced by the few trans and non binary participants. I tend to believe the club will fight hard to maintain these changes, especially parents.

It’s early days and I’m suspecting when word really gets out amongst the public, there will be a hell of a lot of noise about this. I’m even seeing trans people openly disagreeing with these policies because they believe there is in fact more gatekeeping.

We here in Victoria, the sporting capital of Australia (I sound like a goofy politician), will fight hard to preserve the dignity of girls and women’s sport and we’ll apply pressure at a grass roots level they’ve not seen before, girl athletes futures are at stake and we’re not going to be the generation that stymied their potential.

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