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“This is a complex subject, and our position has always been that if there was a material change in law, science, or the operation of the policy in grassroots football then we would review it and change it if necessary.”
It's not a complex subject. It could hardly be less complex, but the old "complex" excuse is always trotted out to justify their inertia. Men shouldn't be playing in women's football. Simple as that. Now they're moving in the right direction, but with as little grace as possible. The poor men who can no longer have fun competing with women who are much less strong and fast as muscular as them are the ones who get all the sympathy – those men who "want to play the game they love in the gender by which they identify". Far more sympathy than the women ever got.
Fiona McAnena, director of campaigns at Sex Matters, said: “This is welcome but long overdue. The FA has had ample evidence of the harms to women and girls caused by its nonsensical policy of letting men who identify as women play in women’s teams. The requirement to lower their testosterone tells you that everyone knew they were not women.
“Thankfully, the UK Supreme Court has now confirmed this, saying it is lawful to exclude ‘all men, including trans women, regardless of their GRC status’.
“Every other sporting body now needs to re-establish a genuine women’s category, and this shameful period in history will finally be brought to an end.”
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— Kathleen Stock (@Docstockk) May 1, 2025
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