Another week in sport, another week of male bodied participants insisting they be counted as female.
In NSW, Football NSW set the rules for Futsal, an indoor version of soccer. There are age divisions, male and female divisions and a mixed competition.
Another male has stolen first place and prize money from women in sport, this time in cycling. The 27 year old male, Austin Killip, won the prestigious race and took home $35,000.
Australian Masters gold medallist and athletics champion, Karen Long, has penned a moving letter as to why women’s sports should be for females only. From a lengthy and successful career of competition, Long speaks from experience and with authority on the matter.
Basketball Australia felt they needed to engage an “expert” panel to determine that a male bodied player was not eligible to play in the NBL1 women’s division. Thankfully the experts reached the same conclusion the rest of us did without consulting experts, that is that men are not women.
Deborah Acason nee Lovely is one of Australia’s most accomplished athletes. As one of only two athletes in the entire Commonwealth she has participated in five consecutive Commonwealth Games winning gold in 2006, three silvers in 2002 and bronze in 2010. Deborah is a dual Olympian and competed in seven world events.
Another sporting code in Australia has allowed itself to become hijacked by the trans agenda and is allowing males who identify as females to compete in the women’s category.
Olympic gold medal-winning decathlete and prominent transgender celebrity Caitlyn Jenner has taken aim at the aggressive agenda to allow males into women’s sports and spaces.
A decision by World Athletics to exclude transgender athletes from competing in the female category means that males will no longer be able to compete in elite female athletics competitions. They can, as always, compete in the male divisions.
A biologically male basketballer is set to play in Victoria’s NBL1 South women’s competition, according to media reports.
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