Posted on 02/14/2020 12:28:55 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Dozens of trophies, balls and cups sit on two worn, wooden shelves in the small home in a Buenos Aires suburb of Mara Gómez, who is poised to become the first transgender woman to play professional soccer in Argentina.
Tall and athletic, Gómez looks at the mementos from her arduous journey in soccer and life, and smiles. “When I started I was so bad. I’d kick the ball at the goal and it would go anywhere.”
Gómez spent years playing in local women’s leagues before being signed recently by Villa San Carlos in the first division. Now the 22-year-old forward is awaiting the Argentine Soccer Federation’s decision whether to authorize the signing in a soccer-mad country that has produced some of the world’s greatest stars.
Argentina has also become a regional leader in transgender rights. In 2012, it gave people the freedom to change their legal and physical gender without having to undergo judicial, psychiatric and medical procedures.
The federation’s decision on Gómez could come in days, and in the run-up her cellphone pings constantly with messages from people reaching out to her. While many support her bid to play professional soccer, others contend it is unfair to the non-transgender women in the league.
“The rights of transgender athletes and the social demands to integrate them into competitions challenge and seriously threaten the rights of women in sports,” said Juan Manuel Herbella, a former soccer player who is a sports doctor. “Athletes who were born men, if they maintain their base conditions, start with an enormous advantage.”
Amid the controversy, Gómez recalls how at age 10 she began to ask questions. “I realized that I wanted to be a woman because I liked men and I wanted them to see me in another way.”
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He’s a man
I always figured S. America would be the last place this would take root in.
The problem is women in general don’t make this a high enough priority when in the voting booth. They’ll whine after the fact, but the reality is they get the policies they voted for.
South America is Socialist.
NO M to F transgender is a woman. It is a mutilated, chemically altered male.
You beat a bunch of girls..you must be proud of yourself freak?
What the hell is a transgender? Are we simply talking about some guy or gal, who “thinks” they’re the opposite sex but have normal sex organs? XX Chromosomes for the female or XY for men?
Or are transgenders hermaphrodites that have male and female sex organs and have an extra X or Y chromosome?
IOWs Bruce Jenner. Is he a transgender? He’s never under gone a sex change operation? Then if so, then there’s something really wrong here.
Some changes need to be made to the text:
“non-transgender women “ change to “women.”
“transgender woman” change to “man dressed as a woman.”
In a sane world, there would be no controversy. A man dressed as a woman would play on the men’s team. If he persisted in his delusion, he would be placed in a room with soft walls.
But PC rules the world, and sanity, reality, scientific fact have all been sacrificed at the altar of political correctness.
Definitely male, with skinny legs. Bet those girls win the suit they’ve got against fake girls competing against them , because of him. I read they’ve lost thousands of dollars in scholarships.
Sure sounds like a girl!
I can’t wait for trans people to force their way onto the USWNT, or have to compete against them internationally! I would love to tell big mouths like Rapinoe to go pound sand when she complains!
The battle for gender equality is lost, and women have won everything. So the best hope for men is to say, we are all women now!!!
Solves the problem - they can all play against each other then. Let them figure out if anyone has an advantage over the other.
And once again, women are being kicked to the curb to advance leftist ideology. I’m surprised that more feminists have not recognized that this is the way the patriarchy has finally found to hit back at the radical feminism that would deprive men of all rights. The left that claimed to support women’s rights is now erasing them.
Antonio Gramsci proposed the Culture must be changed before Marxism will be accepted.
Defining Deviancy down
The feminists have spoken out about it and gotten flamed for their hate speech..............See Maria Navratilova..........
History? What... that a man can wear a woman’s uniforms, and beat a woman in a game of soccer? Some history. It’s already been done.
“Why don’t all these “transgender” athletes just get together and CREATE THEIR OWN LEAGUES / EVENTS ???”
That would at best be “tolerance”.
They demand acceptance and celebration
A man plays women’s soccer and beats the crap out of the women playing and we’re supposed to celebrate that. We live in an insane world.
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