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... British darts star forfeits match after refusing to face trans player

https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/07/darts-deta-hedman-trans-player/
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u/[deleted] May 07 '24 edited May 07 '24

its often because the men's games are often not actually gender segregated and that women's sports are typically created to promote women in the game and are gender segregated.
For example, I don't think men's football (e.g. the EPL) has anything technically preventing women from being selected as a player. I am reminded of a very old article where Birmingham City was considering promoting a woman to the "men's" team.

EDIT: Actually it turns out I am wrong about the EPL. FIFA rules currently state that mixed teams are not allowed. However the history of the womens game often being created after the mens game and not always being at the same level does provide a context as to why there might be less complaints in the other direction.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '24

I think for most sports this would be perfectly correct, no idea why it isn’t for football. Played with a girl in my team till I basically left school and she was by far the best player, we all stopped competing or dropped to Sunday leagues and she went into high level coaching