Transboy insists on playing in female league - can they not keep their own rules straight?

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[–]Finnegan7921 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Yeah I don't get why she just didn't go to the mixed league. She's a goalie, the only spot on the ice where she could reasonably perform against male competition. Some of the rings will be coming at her faster, but it isn't like she won't see them. She'd just have to up her game a bit. It isn't as if she is out there in the middle of the ice getting knocked around.

[–]MarkTwainiac 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Thank you for pointing out that as a goalie, this young woman would be entirely safe playing on a male or mixed team coz it's against the rules to hit or have contact with a goalie - and "protect your goalie" is the prevailing ethos in ice hockey. That is an excellent point.

Since I don't know ice hockey and haven't watched a movie about it since that one from circa 15 years ago about the 1980 Olympics when the USA beat the USSR, I did not know this rule about the goalie before. It's another good example about how careful sports governing bodies are about setting rules and regulations, and how all players have to follow them or get penalized or even thrown out of the game and/or banned from play entirely. Everyone in sports has always accepted that the rules are there to insure fair play and safety for all, and everyone has to follow them. Everyone, that is, except for those who ID as "trans" - they're allowed to ride roughshod over all sorts of rules nowadays. Thanks again for bringing this up.

[–]Finnegan7921 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

"Miracle" was the movie....Kurt Russell deserved a nomination for that. I love that movie. And yeah, running the goalie is one sure thing that will get some rough attention no matter what. They are also covered in massive amounts of pads and have a huge stick, so anyone taking a shot at them is not going to really do much damage unless they come flying in full speed and even then, you'll probably fail and end up taking a beating. I've seen goalies go after guys and it is never pretty b/c you just can't hurt them with all that gear on while they have two heavy gloves they can batter you with.

[–]MarkTwainiac 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks for the reminder of the movie's name. Kurt Russell was indeed great in it, as he was in so many others including the incredibly important film "Silkwood" directed by Mike Nichols and also starring Meryl Streep, Cher, Diana Scarwid, Fred Ward and Craig T Nelson - none of them slouches, LOL.

I love sports movies:"Pride of the Yankees," "Downhill Racer," "Brian's Song," "Breaking Away," "Chariots of Fire," "League of Their Own," "Cool Runnings," "The Sandlot," "The Babe," "Hoop Dreams," "61," "Lords of Dogstown," "Bend It Like Beckham," "Million Dollar Baby," "Munich," "We Are Marshall," "Invictus," "The Fighter," "Touchback," "Friday Night Lights," "Moneyball," "42," "I, Tonya" and many more. They really teach important lessons and are a window onto all sort of social and political issues.

Thanks for bringing these movies to mind.