Opinion: Time to put the transgender genie back in the bottle | Andrew Webster
in May: “The choice, between the blackness and whiteness of men’s and women’s sporting competition, sits impossibly at odds with the range of colours of which the spectrum of gender is composed.”
The International Rugby League announced on Tuesday it was banning transgender footballers from this weekend’s round of representative matches and the World Cup later in the year. A picture has been conveniently painted of transgender athletes changing the face of sport as we know it. Of the floodgates bursting open and hundreds of trans people taking over local football clubs and swimming pools and the Olympics and maybe even State of Origin and the Super Bowl.One commentator called FINA’s directive “one of the most important decisions in the history of sport”.
In the meantime, sport at the amateur level requires a more compassionate and less — dare I say it — binary approach than most are doing now.
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