Women’s World Cup
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LockdownLife
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Hasn't there been a penalty in every game so far?
ThreeSixes
Vital Football Hero
Not sure, but I think only Australia have scored theirs (England did second time). New Zealand, Canada and Spain have missed
RE Block 1
Vital Newbie
In answer to the OP's question.............no!
TBH, if they were playing in my back garden, I couldn't be bothered to open my curtains to watch.
TBH, if they were playing in my back garden, I couldn't be bothered to open my curtains to watch.
daveycrocket
Vital Squad Member
Couldn't agree more, it's pretty awful, but some people in the media are really pushing it hard sadly.
Vambogills
Vital Football Hero
Interesting that now the novelty value of ladies football has passed the big money has not exactly kept pace with the hype. FIFA have suffered a cash shortfall on the selling of the tv rights and Nike seem unwilling to fund production of a replica shirt for the England keeper.
Gills_in_Japs
Vital Youth Team
Headline should be: “First bloke to play in a womens world cup”
www.bbc.com
Hats off to him, following his heart and that
'Historic' - the World Cup's first out trans player
There is much discussion to be found about transgender athletes in sport. In Australia and New Zealand, one has been helping drive their country's bid for World Cup glory.
www.bbc.com
Hats off to him, following his heart and that
Baghdad_Rob
Vital 1st Team Regular
Actually the player is biologically female and as someone who identifies as non-binary is presumably transitioning from someone with a gender to someone without. They aren't actually taking hormones or planning surgery or actually transitioning but are classified as "trans" as a result of deciding not to use female pronouns.Headline should be: “First bloke to play in a womens world cup”
'Historic' - the World Cup's first out trans player
There is much discussion to be found about transgender athletes in sport. In Australia and New Zealand, one has been helping drive their country's bid for World Cup glory.
Hats off to him, following his heart and that
Obviously a biological woman playing in women's football makes them stunningly brave.
Detritus
Vital Squad Member
You should read things before typing a response and making yourself look stupid.Headline should be: “First bloke to play in a womens world cup”
'Historic' - the World Cup's first out trans player
There is much discussion to be found about transgender athletes in sport. In Australia and New Zealand, one has been helping drive their country's bid for World Cup glory.
Hats off to him, following his heart and that
ThreeSixes
Vital Football Hero
18 matches, and both teams have scored in only one of them (Sweden v South Africa)
ThreeSixes
Vital Football Hero
They is brave, as they is playing in Women's world cup then they is not a woman anymore
Baghdad_Rob
Vital 1st Team Regular
The article doesn't state that Rebecca Quinn is biologically female. I bet you never knew "Quinn" sex is female either until I pointed it out
In defence of Gills_in_Japs, for 99.99% of people, a trans person is someone who is actively or intending to transition from one gender to the other.
The trans activists who make up the other 0.01% define a trans person as someone who doesn't use gender pronouns like him / her.
It is somewhat clickbaiting that the BBC have chosen to use a definition of a word that basically no-one uses except a small group of activists uses and I bet 99.99% of people who read the article would have assumed the player was biologically male identifying as female.
"Biological female plays in Women's World Cup" is not a news story but deliberately use an alternative definition of a word to make people think that a biological male is participating is a made up news story. No doubt many people will comment based upon the dictionary definition of a trans person with transactivists screaming "transphobia" based upon their alternative definition.
Detritus
Vital Squad Member
If you read the article it states they played for the Women's National team, and in the Women's League, prior to coming out. So yes, I did know, as would anyone who actually read the article rather than jump to conclusions based on the heading, or the poor attempt to elicit a transphobic response by posting it.
Gills_in_Japs
Vital Youth Team
If they are ‘non binary’, then how/why are they playing for their country’s womens team in the womens world cup?
As for my first comment I obviously didn’t read properly. So after reading it properly I realise I should have said “Woman becomes the first ever woman to not identify as a woman at the womens world cup”
Baghdad_Rob
Vital 1st Team Regular
So me pointing out to Gills_in_Japs that his use of male pronouns was incorrect as the player was actually biologically female is transphobic? Erm, OK.
The second part of my response was more of a critique that the BBC were using niche definition of words that 99.99% of the population would not use. To use "trans" to mean "anyone who doesn't use gender pronouns like him / her" when most people use it to mean "someone who wants to transition to the other sex" is deliberately muddying the waters.
