by Red Roses player expressed their support for a rugby match, in which a team of trans women played against a side of biological women.
The “Ruck You” match took place in Oslo to question the perception that trans women have physical advantages over biological women.
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The game started with seven trans women against seven former female international matches before the players of both teams protested against the ban on the transgender women of the sport. The match ended 34-7 with a contribution in the social media feed of the event, in which the trans women’s team only after “One Pivotal Change … as trans women and CIS women’s teams came together and came together”.
The event, which was organized by the former England Prop Sasha Acheson, was also supported by previous and current players from Wales and Scotland. The current Red Roses players, Meg Jones and Poppy Closely, were shared by several CIS women, the support messages, which were shared in the social media feed of the event on June 1st.
Jones, one of the outstanding players of England in the last seasons, said: “I support the jerk you Match because this game is based on women of all forms and greats, different backgrounds, different stories, and I know that sport has the power to make this change. On June 1st we will hopefully see the change that we want to see in this world.”
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Closel, who has 66 caps for the Red Roses, said: “I support the jerk you have. Rugby is an incredible sport. It is incredible because it includes communities and any form, any size.
“That’s why I love rugby and that’s why I hope that rugby will continue to be this safe space for people where everyone has the feeling of supporting and supporting. Teamwork is so important for Rugby and this is an opportunity to say for me: ‘I have your back.”
In 2020, World Rugby was the first International Sports Association to ban trans women at the elite level, and quoted “significant” security concerns.
The body’s decision was based on scientific data, which showed “at least 20 to 30 percent higher risk” for injury risk factors when a female player is tackled by someone who went through male puberty. Despite this data, the body said that it was to be decided at individual unions of the members to decide whether the guideline should be enforced at the basic level.
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The global government committee did not comment on the “Ruck You” match when it was addressed by Telegraph sport.
Two players, who were mentioned in the transgender team-line-up in Oslo, were Julie Ann Curtis and Alix Fitzgerald, who were not entitled to play female rugby rugby rugby in England when the rugby football union in 2022 for the ban on women from the rugby union of women in the rugby union of women in Full-Contact rugby union time was viewed by six transgen women in the female community game.
The RFU did not commit itself to the participation of the English players in the “Ruck You” match Telegraph sport.
It is believed that the game “Ruck You” is the first of its kind in the International Gay Rugby Cup, which was called the greatest inclusive rugby tournament in Europe and was supported by several national players.
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The USA International Alycia Washington was part of the biological female team and flew hours after winning the France Premier Club competition, Elite 1 Feminine League, with Bordeaux at the weekend.
“If you wonder why I flew [to Oslo] For a 7S game, it was because people in my community stole their rugby career from a ban on trans -athletes, ”wrote Washington, a former Warriors player, on social media. [sic] to give them another game. “
Several sports management bodies banned transgender women according to the unfolding judgment of the Supreme Court on April 16 that a legal definition of a woman is based on organic sex.
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The Cricket Board of England and Wales ban on transgender women to take part in all levels of women’s cricket on May 2, while England also changed his participant guidelines by banning transgender women from his female category.
From September, the body will recognize three different categories of gender participation: female, male and mixed.
