The Football Association is considering the closure of one of the nation’s largest girls’ football leagues because it refuses to let a boy participate in its matches. The Mail on Sunday has the story.
A row has broken out between the FA and officials running a female league in Yorkshire after parents complained their son had not been allowed to join.
It is understood the FA has threatened the West Riding Girls Football League with sanctions and a possible suspension if it does not agree to let boys on the pitch, a scenario officials have branded “a massive threat to the girls’ game”.
Last week an emergency meeting was held by organisers of the league – which has at least 6,000 under-18 girls playing across more than 300 teams – where managers voiced their concerns that allowing boys to play would “open the floodgates”.
The FA’s gender policy states that any under-16 teams must allow both boys and girls to play, despite admitting that “physical strength, stamina or physique” can put one sex at the disadvantage of the other.
At the end of October last year the boy’s parents asked the West Riding Girls League if their son could join due to him not wanting to play with other boys, and also because of his ability level.
But after the league declined their request, the parents launched an appeal with the West Riding County Football Association – overseen by the national FA – which allegedly told the organisers they were “in no position to refuse the application” and would face sanctions for doing so.
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Cake. Eat. Choke. Just saying.
Those girls and their parents must “hold the line” against this Globalist craziness.
Agreed, but see comment from Free Lemming above.
True. What creeps me out is the fact that the boy’s pervert parents are trying to force all the girls to accept a boy ogling them in the girls’ locker room.
It shows the hypocrisy of the whole feminist movement calling for “safe spaces for women”, then crushing it all by forcing women & girls to share their “safe spaces” with men & boys, even boys from a hostile, alien culture regarding western females as sex slaves. It’s like a horror movie.
“their son could join due to him not wanting to play with other boys, and also because of his ability level.”
Far from wanting him to play with the girls, the boy’s parents should force him to play with boys and if he gets ‘roughed-up’, then so be it. It is called character forming which he will almost certainly be thankful for in later life. We always had the boys who were the last pick when choosing sides but one always included them. Part of growing up and they will not thank their ‘wet’ parents in future years.
Also…
https://www.staffordshire-live.co.uk/news/local-news/derbyshire-constabulary-male-voice-choir-1424901
https://theconversation.com/male-voice-choirs-are-from-the-pits-heres-why-they-should-welcome-women-94589
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/dec/06/lesley-garrett-says-kings-college-choir-must-accept-girls
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/gentlemen-s-clubs-will-be-forced-to-admit-women-338688.html
Meanwhile and on the other hand:
https://www.thehandbook.com/londons-best-women-only-private-members-clubs/#:~:text=Located%20in%20Mayfair%2C%20the%20University,the%20busy%20London%20working%20life.
Located in Mayfair, the University Women’s Club is a space that offers a retreat from the busy London working life. It’s played an integral role in helping businesswomen connect with like-minded individuals in a professional, safe and friendly environment for over 130 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3_ZCP2RYNs
Woman creates female only nightclub to ‘stop men ruining nights out’ with 2,000 attendees
London’s 5 Best Women’s Only Private Members Clubs’ 2023
The University Women’s Club. “A haven in London for educated women” …
The Allbright. “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other” …
The Sorority. …
The Trouble Club. …
The Merit Club.
There are also over 100 women only choirs in the UK.
I have no issue with any of the above as long as white males are afforded the same privileges.
“What is good for the goose is good for the gander”
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”
How totally in line with the clown world I find myself. Why should boys be excluded from girls football? It’s an utter disgrace. Next you’ll be finding that men can’t join the Women’s Institute and produce their own scrumptious array of cupcakes. FA says it all about the thinking going on in the FA or should it be Sweet FA.
What sad people the parents are for thinking it right that a boy should play for a girls team. Is there more than meets the eye on this – were they put up to it with sufficient financial backing to deal with any fall out?
It does seem a strange thing to do. There is also the affect on the boy and the reaction from his peers.
Yes I can’t imagine it would win him much respect from some of his peers
It is child abuse for any parent to use their kids to make a point. It’s unacceptable. Greta comes to mind.
A better solution for these parents is set up your own mixed team if that’s what floats your boat – don’t ruin someone else’s party. It’s a free world, at least it was once.
Indeed – assuming it was their idea and not his. If it was his idea then I’d say they should be having a word in his ear advising him to leave it alone.
This kid needs to Man Up.
Yes. Some people are possibly so far gone that they need to be mollycoddled a bit to stop them going over the edge, but for most of us the best route to getting the most out of life is to face brutal reality with courage. I don’t always manage, but it’s what I aspire to. Be cruel to be kind.
Yes good point. He’d be in for a LOT of stick off his male classmates, presumably, so why on earth bring a world of pain on yourself if it can be easily avoided? I’d rather get a bit of ribbing for being crap at football ( I’m sure he’s good at other things though ) than get a shed-load of non-stop bullying for being so weird that you’d want to actually join a girls’ team. I can just imagine the names they’re going to call him and remarks they’re going to make.
But his parents say he doesn’t want to play with other boys, and he has a low ability level, so the whole world should change to accommodate their spoilt son. It’s just unbelievably selfish and weird of his parents.
What kind of parent pushes for their son to play in a girls’ football team? I smell a big, fat rat. In fact, I’d be wanting to call social services in to take a closer look at their home set-up and parenting skills because this is a red flag as far as I’m concerned. Maybe they’re wanting to ‘trans’ him or something, I don’t know, but it all sounds very suss. Just the fact that they couldn’t accept ”no” for an answer initially and have gone to the extent of launching an appeal. What sane person does that, plus who is actually pushing for this, the boy or the parents? Nothing about this is normal and the girls and their parents should hold fast and fight this nonsense because it’s obvious the boy’s parents couldn’t give a stuff about how the girls might feel about this. Zero forethought or consideration there is there?
If he doesn’t want to play footie with the boys because he’s crap then get him some football coaching or work on his self-esteem/confidence or something. You don’t just foist him on a bunch of girls and expect everybody concerned to be cool with the situation! Bizarre story.
And if he’s not wanted by the girls then how will that turn out if your parents force you in? This is the complete opposite of teaching their lad life skills.
Lets go back to how it was before all this *olloc*s?
In the past there seemed to be more adults, and they were in charge of the children.
I think going back to the days when the word ”diversity” wasn’t front and centre of people’s consciences, commonplace in every day vocabulary or written in to organizations’ policies and procedures, would be a positive start. In fact, I’d quite like to get swallowed by a wormhole so I could travel back to the 1990s, please. None of this garbage we’re having to contend with now was even a thing then. People just lived their lives and didn’t go out of their way to invent problems that didn’t exist or worry about meaningless BS. I don’t think they would’ve suffered this nonsense in the article either.
I agree with you that there is something peculiar about parents wanting their son to play in a girls team with no apparent gender nonsense going on, but I don’t want government or social services intervening in anything to come along with their political agendas, wokery and PC garbage. ——–It should all be sorted out by those involved and governments kept well out of the road.
Especially as there is no mention of any gender dysphoria etc. —It does seem rather peculiar. Or is it just the case that the parents know that all under 16’s are supposed to be allowed to participate and are just those kind of people that likes to kick up a stink. Who knows. ——But clear guidelines that are not in place regarding all of this gender nonsense for political purposes are causing a bit of a clutter
If he’s crap at football there’s always (shock horror)… not playing football.
Refuse to play. Let it be shut down, but purely as an object lesson. When the wokerati complain, say you’re a (biological) women’s only organisation.
No apologies necessary. I’m a boy but Fuk’da’boyz. A few televised boy(girl)cotts would make waves.
Boycott the sport. Refuse to play.
One must bear in mind that discrimination is legal if objectively justifiable.
We seem to be getting only a fraction of this story – who are his parents and what are the up to?
More to the point, what is the Football League up to?
Is this true: “due to him not wanting to play with other boys, and also because of his ability level“.
1) “not wanting to play with other boys” – hmmm – so 6000 girls have to have their enjoyment of the game screwed up for such selfishness?
2) “his ability level” – join the real world sonny. I could never swim like Mark Spitz did when he won six olympic gold medals in one Olympic games, nor could I ever play football like Georgie Best used to.
So assuming he is a lot older than six years old, what is stopping this boy from joining a six year old girls football team on the basis of his low ability level?
set up your own league
Stick to ‘fantasy’ football, rather than trying to make it a reality at the expense of others. Just saying!