As international swimming competition goes…
For the moment, anyway.
I am surprised to learn there are women’s rugby teams in the first place. But my goodness, a post-pubescent biological male identifying as a woman on one of those teams would be dangerous. Rugby is a very rough sport.
before women’s involvement in sports in much greater numbers over the last 50 years, knee injuries were unheard of.
Grils have smaller ACL’seven adjusted for height and weight. they are not designed to play physical sports. having boys/men play with them is a recipe for disaster
Women’s rugby teams have been around for a long time, at least at most New England colleges
Any girls or women who were foolish enough to play rugby with males should expect to be brutally beaten up. Males are stronger.
Is there any doubt that fear of a massive amount of future lawsuits was the prime motivation for the International Rugby Association ruling as they did?
It appears that transmania is not … sustainable … to use a favorite word of the left.
Related:
https://www.kuam.com/story/46261367/tiyan-rugby-coach-calls-for-ban-on-transgender-players-after-injuries-at-weekend-match
https://m.facebook.com/watch/?v=716339109536252&_rdr
And a few photos just might do the trick….
https://tinyurl.com/3kryrwfc
Neo–
Here are some links to studies of head injuries in females– not only girls who play soccer or rugby, but also women in the military and women injured by their domestic partners. It’s been going on for awhile: nine years ago in 2013, a Canadian teenager named Rowan Stringer died of what is called second impact syndrome (SIS) following a high school rugby match; she had played three matches in a six-day period and had suffered concussions in all three. SIS is a potentially fatal disorder that occurs when a person suffers a second concussion before the symptoms of an earlier concussion have resolved.
https://www.invw.org/2018/11/14/the-concussion-gap-head-injuries-in-girls-soccer-are-an-unpublicized-epidemic
https://www.pinkconcussions.com/
FWIW, the first case of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) diagnosed postmortem (still the only way to diagnose it definitively) in a woman was identified in a battered wife.
I wondered how this could be. Rugby barred transgender some time back, well before FINA. How could it not? The disparity in sizes and strengths would lead to actual injury, and lawsuits would surely follow, as commenters above have noted.
As there is now some money in women’s rugby, it would only be a matter of time before people took advantage of that.
The link you have is to Rugby League, not Rugby Union. For US readers, Rugby League is abbreviated to “League”, never “Rugby”. It’s a variant played in even less places than Rugby Union.
Tablet magazine recently published a lengthy article about the Pritzkers, a mega-wealthy Illinois family that’s bankrolling the transgender movement. One member is the governor of the state; his cousin “Jennifer” is a military veteran formerly named James. Photo of xer at the link; xe’s even homelier than Rachel Levine.
It’s a long article, but the details of the sheer number of clinics, medical schools, and transgender political organizations funded by the Pritzkers are remarkable.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/billionaire-family-pushing-synthetic-sex-identities-ssi-pritzkers
I’ve seen a co-ed softball game get a little ugly. I’ve heard of another such game result in severe injury. Injury to a woman of course.
Back when I was in College it seemed going out for the women’s Rugby team was the polite way for young women to notify their parents that they were lesbians. 😉
So now international rugby and swimming events are off the table for the transgender , spoiled brat little children who , born male, wish to compete against real women (defined as humans born with ovaries, a uterus, without testicles and having testosterone levels below an approved, specified amount.).
How ironic it is that these international athletic agencies, dominated by MEN !!!, have stepped in to save women’s swimming and rugby for the benefit of real women.
And where are those organizations that purportedly exist to promote women’s rights and opportunities??
Yep, they are nowhere to be found; they are silent, invisible.
They have decided that these sorts of decisions – affecting women and only women – should be decided by men.
How brilliant !
Rufus,
I played rugby for my college club in the late 1980s. There were women’s teams, and trust me, most of the girls were not lesbian then. A bit rougher and tougher than most girls, but they cleaned up just fine.
At that time my brother was married to a college volleyball coach. They would visit prospective players’ houses. Gayle would talk to the girl, and my brother to the parents. “You know, it’s important to get your girl into a straight program . . . .”
Watch college softball. You don’t need a scorecard. The lesbians have short hair. The straight girls have ponytails with bows.
All that said, rugby is violent and there is great potential for head injuries. Women’s necks are not nearly as strong as men’s and an impact between two men that results in no damage could be catastrophic to two women. Now do the differential between a man pretending to be a woman and a genuine woman, well.