Gender Discussion #86

[Metropolis]

BBC version of Cerys' story.

Teenage footballer banned for transgender comment wants apology from Football Association

A teenage amateur footballer banned by the Football Association over remarks she made to a transgender woman opponent demands an apology from the governing body after the case is dropped.

www.bbc.co.uk

OMG, they’re so biased in their language: ‘demands an apology’ and ‘claiming the case ‘impacted’ her life’. They put inverted commas around ‘impacted’ as if it is not true. Of course it impacted her life - she was banned from playing

 

[Metropolis]

Sad that Maisie Adams is a TRA.
just watching HIGNFY and sodding David Tennan mr is hosting but interestingly he’s not wearing any of his TRA badges like usual. Has the bbc said he can’t?

That was the first thing I noticed when I watched last night.

 

[TheMiceInTheShed]

That was the first thing I noticed when I watched last night.

Just goes to show. When the tide begins to turn, a lot of rubbish gets washed up. And I think we can agree that David is looking washed up at the moment .

 

[Nurseali]

He looks like a pervy Geography teacher more and more lately.

 

[ButtonDownTheHutches]

Just goes to show. When the tide begins to turn, a lot of rubbish gets washed up. And I think we can agree that David is looking washed up at the moment .

I’ve long suspected that the trans child/trans alley angle was a calculated career move to catch some marketable kudus for the Tennant family brand that they’re hell-bent on establishing nowadays.

I wonder if we’ll see it all quietly fade away, once they realise they backed the wrong horse?

 

[Nurseali]

In my day you put your kid into drama school.
Now you put them in a dress.

 

[IndominusRex]

I’ve long suspected that the trans child/trans alley angle was a calculated career move to catch some marketable kudus for the Tennant family brand that they’re hell-bent on establishing nowadays.

I wonder if we’ll see it all quietly fade away, once they realise they backed the wrong horse?

I think it’s pretty hard to row back from publicly wishing the leader of the opposition was dead because she knows what a woman is.

 

[NeverEnough]

OMG, they’re so biased in their language: ‘demands an apology’ and ‘claiming the case ‘impacted’ her life’. They put inverted commas around ‘impacted’ as if it is not true. Of course it impacted her life - she was banned from playing

I guess the FAs universal inclusion policy didn’t extend to those who didn’t like the universal inclusion policy. Which I suppose redefines both Universal and Inclusion.

But this is were we are at….

 

[VeniVidiVicki]

OMG, they’re so biased in their language: ‘demands an apology’ and ‘claiming the case ‘impacted’ her life’. They put inverted commas around ‘impacted’ as if it is not true. Of course it impacted her life - she was banned from playing

Every day I‘m glad I cancelled my licence

 

[Nurseali]

Every day I‘m glad I cancelled my licence

Do you get many letters? Is it easy to do? I want to but I am petrified I will get caught watching the one BBC show I enjoy still (only connect)

 

[Mugglewump]

Do you get many letters? Is it easy to do? I want to but I am petrified I will get caught watching the one BBC show I enjoy still (only connect)

I have it on very good authority that absolutely nothing happens if you chuck the letters in the bin for years...

 

[VeniVidiVicki]

Do you get many letters? Is it easy to do? I want to but I am petrified I will get caught watching the one BBC show I enjoy still (only connect)

I got one letter and just sent them an email and haven’t heard since. I don’t watch it at all though.

 

[chizontiz]

OMG, they’re so biased in their language: ‘demands an apology’ and ‘claiming the case ‘impacted’ her life’. They put inverted commas around ‘impacted’ as if it is not true. Of course it impacted her life - she was banned from playing

I was about to say before I got to this - women’s football includes teenagers. It also includes changing rooms and showers. Teenage girls don’t like doing these things in front of each other, they especially don’t like doing them in front of adults, even adult women. And we now expect them to now be okay getting naked around men? When I was growing up, the safeguarding for kids in adult sports was non-existent. It clearly hasn’t improved.

 

[DoraMaar]

Stella O'Malley (Genspect)

When the Truth Is Uncomfortable – and We Want to Look Away

 

[klarakluckbag]

OMG, they’re so biased in their language: ‘demands an apology’ and ‘claiming the case ‘impacted’ her life’. They put inverted commas around ‘impacted’ as if it is not true. Of course it impacted her life - she was banned from playing

Yes, that's why I posted it, they slyly imply that even though she's been exonerated, she's still guilty of something...I liked this quote from a woman on behalf of some organisation called Football against Transphobia or whatever, she doesn't point out that these TIM's have NOT been banned from playing football, they've just been banned from cheating and from perving over women players in the changing-rooms

It is a de facto ban for transgender women from football more generally, realistically, particularly people who have been playing in women's football for decades."

 

[Jelly Bean]

Interview with Tennant in The Guardian today.
Can he genuinely not see the hypocrisy? Is he actually thick?
He's worried peoples voices are being silenced - in response to a question about telling a woman to 'shut up'

 

[TheMiceInTheShed]

Do you get many letters? Is it easy to do? I want to but I am petrified I will get caught watching the one BBC show I enjoy still (only connect)

Same here. Mr Mice is frightened he'll end up breaking rocks on a chain gang.

I've told him he can claim it was a cry for help as he struggles with his trans identity, but the thought of a life behind bars terrifies him, even after 46 years of my cooking.

 

[maytoseptember]

”It is a de facto ban for transgender women from football more generally, realistically, particularly people who have been playing in women's football for decades."

Germaine Greer came up with the answer to these sympathy-mining statements years ago:

 

[Red80's]

Interview with Tennant in The Guardian today.
Can he genuinely not see the hypocrisy? Is he actually thick?
He's worried peoples voices are being silenced - in response to a question about telling a woman to 'shut up'

What an utterly vile man. Turning it round so that he is the victim, no accountability for what he said, no reflection or humility that he might have been wrong to tell a woman to shut up. It's all everyone else's fault on social media for picking on him. Poor little rich white man.

 

[jolly_parsley]

OMG, they’re so biased in their language: ‘demands an apology’ and ‘claiming the case ‘impacted’ her life’. They put inverted commas around ‘impacted’ as if it is not true. Of course it impacted her life - she was banned from playing

But I bet if the interviewed a TiM footballer they would say it impacted his life without the inverted commas. Always gotta have sympathy for the pretend women but never actual women and girls.