Female ice hockey players as young as 14 are being forced to play against adult competitors who are biologically male but identify as female. The Mail has more.
One angry father told of how his 15 year-old daughter was in an amateur league game when a male-born trans player was penalised for hitting a female opponent around the head.
Under the ice hockey league’s current rules, female players can play with adult teams from the age of 14.
But the whistleblower father, who asked to remain anonymous to protect his child’s identity, said teenage players were now being put in danger by the admission of male-born trans competitors.
“I’m watching my 15 year-old daughter taking on fully grown men and thinking this isn’t right”, he told the Telegraph.
The father said watching the girl get hit had left him “seething”, as he branded the practice “dangerous” and “unfair” with “no good reason” for it to happen.
He points out that the men could play in mixed teams, but they insist on playing in the ladies’ team.
The concerned father points out that ice hockey is a physical game and argues the “obvious strength difference” and levels of aggression in the male game mean the games should be separate.
Meanwhile, an adult female player who competes in an amateur women’s ice hockey league raised further concerns about the issue of trans competitors sharing girls’s changing rooms.
The woman, who again spoke to the paper on condition of not being named for fear of losing her place in her team, said she has heard of parents not bringing their children to ice hockey games if there is a biological male on the opposite team.
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