Remember them, back in March?
A women’s football competition has been branded “misogynist” after it was won by a team featuring five transgender players amid accusations one had broken an opponents’ leg in two places.
Flying Bats FC won every match they played during the four-week Beryl Ackroyd Cup, including a 10-0 victory in which one of their trans players scored a double hat-trick.
Since winning Sunday’s final in Sydney, Australia, 4-0, it has emerged organisers had earlier held a crisis meeting, during which rival teams were warned forfeiting games against the Bats would result in disciplinary action and could even be viewed as “an act of discrimination”.
The same meeting included accusations a 6ft 2in, 14st Bats player had once broken the leg of 5ft 6in, nine-and-a-half stone opponent in two places and claims 24 of the injured player’s team-mates had quit because they did not want to face the LGBTQ+ side.
Flying Bats went on to win the $1,000 (£514) first prize on Sunday.
Now here's Claire Chandler:
The Flying Bats fielding 5 males in a women’s football league is no anomaly. Watch as I show that it was an explicit direction from the very top of Australian sport that male intrusion in women’s community sport is to be prioritised over fairness for women, and women who object… pic.twitter.com/5Opoo9u8d5
— Senator Claire Chandler (@SenatorClaire) May 15, 2024
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