Transgender athletes taking part in in women’ and ladies’s ice hockey is reaching a boiling level in England as mother and father specific concern about their teenage daughters going up in opposition to organic males within the sport.
Feminine ice hockey gamers as younger as 14 years outdated have performed in opposition to transgender women within the sport, The Telegraph reported Saturday. One nameless father informed the outlet that his 15-year-old daughter was taking part in in a sport the place a transgender competitor hit a feminine opponent across the head and neck.
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Dad and mom expressed considerations to The Telegraph. (iStock)
“I’m watching my 15-year-old daughter taking over totally grown males and considering this isn’t proper,” the person informed The Telegraph. “It’s harmful, it’s unfair and there’s no good cause for it. Any of those males might play in blended groups that exist, however they insist on taking part in within the women’ staff.
“Ice hockey is a bodily sport, and if you happen to’re going head-to-head with a person as a 15-year-old lady, there’s clearly a power distinction. There’s additionally a lot larger ranges of aggression in male ice hockey after which these gamers go to play in ladies’s groups. I used to be seething after I noticed the feminine participant being hit.”
An grownup feminine hockey participant who performs in an newbie league additionally expressed considerations to the paper.
“I’ve heard from a girl who performs on a distinct staff to me that the mother and father of a youthful participant won’t convey that participant to a sport the place they know a organic male is taking part in on the other staff,” the hockey participant mentioned. “In order that lady is being excluded from her sport due to the presence of a organic male within the ladies’s league.”
English ice hockey organizations are reviewing their transgender insurance policies. (iStock)
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England Ice Hockey and Ice Hockey UK are at the moment reviewing their transgender insurance policies. Nonetheless, Ice Hockey UK Chairman Lord Clifton Wrottesley prompt that permitting transgender athletes to compete in opposition to ladies was akin to doping in sports activities.
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