Australian senator Claire Chandler has rightfully called out a women's soccer team in her country that features five transgender players. Not only does Chandler see the very obvious problem with a women's team having a roster filled with biological men, but she believes it is part of a bigger movement to usher women out of sport in general.
Flying Bats FC out of Sydney made headlines in March after dominating a preseason women's tournament that saw them win the grand final 4-0 before winning a match earlier in the competition by a score of 10-0 that saw one of the transgender players score six goals.
"A core part of our mission as a club is to challenge these wider cultural attitudes, to actively call out transphobic, homophobic and biphobic abuse when and where it happens on and off the field, and to make football a safe and accessible space for everyone," part of the club's gender and sex diversity policy reads.
The headline on the team's website reads "The Flying Bats is the biggest LGBTQIA+ women's and non-binary football club in the world."
Senator Chandler, a liberal politician, has had enough of the ridiculousness and issued a warning in parliament.
She shared a video of her making comments about the situation to X, formerly Twitter, while accusing top sports officials in Australia of intruding in women's sports.
"Australian women won’t forget that when World Aquatics, World Athletics, World Rugby, World Netball, the ICC, UCI and others stepped up to protect women’s single-sex sport, Australian sporting bodies openly lobbied against women and girls at grassroots level having the same protections," Sen. Chandler wrote.
The league in which the Flying Bats participate adopted Australian Human Rights Commission guidelines, which which states players are permitted to participate in soccer on the basis of the gender with which they identify, not their biological sex.
Following the team's dominant tournament run, Australia spokeswoman Kirralie Smith claimed that some girl's teams were warned not to complain about having to compete against biological males at the risk of having to forfeit matches, being fined, or referred to Anti-Discrimination NSW.
Mark covers all sports at OutKick while keeping a close eye on the world of professional golf. He graduated from the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga before earning his master’s degree in journalism from the University of Tennessee. He somehow survived living in Knoxville despite ‘Rocky Top’ being his least favorite song ever written. Before joining OutKick, he wrote for various outlets including SB Nation, The Spun, and BroBible. Mark was also a writer for the Chicago Cubs Double-A affiliate in 2016 when the team won the World Series. He’s still waiting for his championship ring to arrive. Follow him on Twitter @itismarkharris.
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