On Friday, Zero Hedge posted an article about a soccer team in the NorthWest Association, a league in Australia.<\/p>\n
The article reports:<\/p>\n
Calling itself the \u201cbiggest LGBTQIA+ women\u2019s and non-binary football club in the world,\u201d the Flying Bats FC has made international headlines for fielding 5 self-identifying transgender players<\/span>,\u00a0with at least nine transgender players in the wider NorthWest Association.<\/strong><\/p>\n Critics have said the Bat\u2019s domination of the four-week pre-season Beryl Ackroyd Cup, which followed an undefeated season in 2023 that produced scorelines disproportionate to other teams\u2019 results, was a direct result of the inclusion of male-born transgender players.<\/strong><\/p>\n According to the feminist and pro-woman online news source, Reduxx,\u00a0<\/em>president of St. Patrick\u2019s Football Club Frank Parisi said a March discussion over the Flying Bats FC\u2019s ease of victories had prompted an informal meeting with stakeholders of the Northwest Sydney Football Association to\u00a0address \u201cconcerns around how implausible it has become for any team to win against the Flying Bats as well as physical safety concerns.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Incensed by the Flying Bats\u2019 domination, other clubs asked the league\u2019s governing body Football NSW to force them into playing in a mixed-sex league.<\/strong><\/p>\n One club official told the Daily Telegraph,\u00a0\u201cOur girls are here to play for fun and expect to play in the female competition. They did not sign up for a mixed competition. It was so disheartening for them to see the huge difference in ability\u2014they\u2019re killing it.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n The involvement of transgender athletes in sports is a current hot-button issue, as policymakers grapple with how to balance the effects on women\u2019s players, versus the \u201crights\u201d of female-identifying players born as biological men<\/strong><\/p>\n Any soccer team with biological males on it is going to beat a team composed of only biological women. Although there are occasionally women who have the muscle structure to compete with men, they are rare. This is totally unfair competition. It is like adding five professional baseball players to a high school team so that they can have a winning season. Kudos to the women who walked away from the unfair competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Friday, Zero Hedge posted an article about a soccer team in the NorthWest Association, a league in Australia. The article reports: Calling itself the \u201cbiggest LGBTQIA+ women\u2019s and non-binary football club in the world,\u201d the Flying Bats FC has … Continue reading