So many people in this thread seem to think everyone should have the exact same body type or else the sport isn’t “fair”. I played rugby in my school in PE against players who play in super league now (top European rugby league division). They were physically stronger and in better shape than everyone else. We were much more in risk of being injured by them than anyone else. However isn’t that sport? They shouldn’t have been forced to not play to account for smaller less skilled players.

Lmaoooo yeah. A real “complex” issue

A lot of people try to make the point that MtF individuals have a physical advantage due to growing up as a male.

I would counter that point by saying physical advantages exist all throughout sports, regardless of sex or gender. Someone like Romelu Lukaku has a massive physical advantage over someone like Joe Allen. Or someone like Van Dijk or Haaland vs Youri Tielemans. Should they not be allowed to play in the same league?

Removing politics from the equation, on a purely sporting level when you consider the greatest ever women's team cannot compete with random u15 boys academies, the astronomical advantage this would give just wouldn't be fair.

Trans-men are men.

Trans-women are women.

Don't want to play? Forfeit.

Cunts.

Fucking hell, the transphobia.

By the rules listed in the article, it would appear that she’s allowed to play.

If a team doesn’t want to take the field, they are free to forfeit the match. That’s how the sport works.

So yeah, looks like it’s not a complex issue after all.

How can someone with physical abilities of a man play in a womens division?

The physical attribute of that player gives him/her huge advantage over others. Especially when womens football is relatively developing right now.

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As they should do, this bullshit needs to stop going on.

Give them their own division and be done with it, it’s unfair for these women and is damaging the growth of the sport.

As a trans woman who plays recreational football for a womens/nonbinary inclusive club, cisgender women regularly outpace, outmuscle, outjump, and generally outplay me. It is exactly the same in the other contact sport I play.

The divide is not as dramatic as it’s made out to be, and the assumption that every trans player is inherently better due to biology does a disservice to cis female athletes who are more than capable of competing equally. Nobody talks about how the only transfeminine weightlifter at the 2020 Olympics came last.

There should be an open category and a female category.

As for the case of FtM then they would have to play in the open category as that would be the same as doping if they were to play in the female category

This reaaaally shouldn’t be a complex situation at all, if anything each gender should have their own category. Ie male,female or trans. But then the trans community is rediculously small, so I doubt that be able to have their own

maybe dont let biological males compete in biological female sports. science deniers really need to get their heads checked.

There should be at least 3 categories.

Biological Males, Biological Females, Free for all (everyone can compete regardless of gender)OR they could have various trans categories the same way the special Olympics has different levels of handicap.

Hang on so the ladies don't want to play against man who can hit a ball so hard it's caused injuries?

Why isn't he / she / whatever just playing with other men?

Mediocre white women behaving like mediocre white women again I see

This is only a 'complex issue' because of the current social climate, biological men and women compete seperatly for obvious reasons. Just look at the mixed sex swimming relay in the Olympics as an example.

Not complex in any way

Curious to see if the USA Women's team is gonna jump in on this.

It’s utterly insane that people are really trying to deny biological reality and say that men and women can be on an equal playing field.

I don’t care how many years a transwoman is on hormones, they will still be stronger than any biological woman on the team. Elective post-puberty hormones do not negate that men are more muscular, have larger bone density and are sizably stronger than women.

It’s unfortunate that these girls can’t speak up for themselves without being labeled.

I remember mixed practices with the boys soccer team and they were clearly stronger than myself and my teammates. I faint imagine actually playing against them in a real game.

The only “fair” way it to have an open category and let them compete in that.

I’m sure r/soccer will have a nuanced discussion about a complex issue.

If being trans automatically makes you a dramatically superior athlete then why is playing in the Sheffield & Hallamshire County league?

It's pretty normal for lower league players to get injured by powerful shots. I've seen happen loads of times. A shot striking your limb at the wrong moment will break it and end your season.

I can definitely understand peoples worry about the effect trans athletes have on certain womans sports. I get that transmen and transwomen might have to play in the mens divisions, but this incident seems like panic sparked by a fairly standard injury.

Man, people here are really dumb. Cavemen after cavemen.

Whats so complex about it? Penis + testes = mens game , vaggie + booba = womans game

Maybe they should play better if they're so worried about losing to the other team.

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I’m sure r/soccer is equipped to have a nuanced discussion about this

This is such a difficult situation. In an ideal world, trans people should be able to play with whoever.

There really just needs to be leagues for trans people at this point, there needs to be a safe space for trans people to compete without discrimination, and without potentially injuring people.

I honestly don't know if I have that strong of an opinion about this, as I'm not truly educated on how this stuff really works, but whether trans people are allowed to compete with their own gender or not, there needs to be leagues for trans people.

Side note, a season ending knee injury from a shot? I wonder how that works.

Start a mental illness division.

Getting in before this gets locked. What’s up y’all?

Good on them