All Is Not What It Seems As Trans Player Takes to the Field at FIFA World Cup

The most stunningly brave story you'll read this World Cup

A transgender player took to the field at the weekend in the FIFA Women’s World Cup.

And how the media gushed!

The headline in the Daily Telegraph read:

“Transgender player makes World Cup history!”

Here we go, I thought. What are they doing now to destroy the integrity of women’s sport?

The article continued …

“The Women’s World Cup has been hailed a ground-breaking and historic event after the first ever transgender and non-binary athlete took to the field.”

Ground breaking, huh?

Really?

We’ll come back to the bit about this person being trans AND non-binary because, let’s face it, that makes about as much sense as women with penises and men with periods.

But first, more on this “ground-breaking, history making” trans player in the women’s World Cup …

The Telegraph reported that Quinn, who plays for Canada …

“ … dropped their full name three years ago, asking to be known only by a mononym and the pronouns they/them”.

So stunning. So brave.

I confess I had to google mononym. Quinn wants to be known by a single word?

Whatever.

Oops, sorry. I mean so stunning. So brave. Wow. Amazing.

Then Quinn is quoted talking about how turning trans threatened to ruin a beautiful sporting career.

“Being a transgender athlete, it was difficult to see my place in sports and see that I belong,” Quinn said.

I can only imagine.

Reading on …

“It’s so important for young soccer players to have role models in sport. Seeing the women’s national team and fortunately being able to interact with some of them was hugely important for me in understanding that there was a pathway for me.”

Right.

So the women’s team interacted with Quinn as a woman even though Quinn was trans. That’s very inclusive. Diversity is, after all, our strength and all that.

I kept reading but something seemed a bit weird with this story though I couldn’t quite put my finger on it.

Next we were told that …

“Quinn also made history at the Tokyo Olympics where they became the first ever openly trans athlete not only to compete but to also win a medal.”

Wait. I don’t recall a bloke wining a medal in a women’s Olympic event. So weird I don't remember that.

And then, in the eighth paragraph of this story about a “ground-breaking, history making” trans person playing in the women’s World Cup, we read …

Are you sitting down?

Here it comes …

Quinn was born female and called Rebecca Quinn.

Wait.

What?!

“After coming out they were allowed to continue playing the women’s game on the basis of their sex assigned at birth. According to the BBC, they have no plans to medically transition or increase their testosterone intake while playing professionally.”

I fell off my seat in uncontrollable laughter.

Quinn is a woman!!!!

I don’t mean Quinn identifies as a woman. Quinn is literally a woman, with a vagina and everything!

So the “ground-breaking, history making” news, breathlessly reported by our news media, is that - wait for it - a woman is competing in the women’s FIFA World Cup!

I’m trying this from the floor where I am still rolling around laughing.

Quinn is a woman who thinks she’s a man who identifies as genderless, insisting on nonsensical pronouns. Get around her!!!

Canadian freelance journalist Har Johal, an expert on Quinn’s story according to the Telegraph, told the BBC …

“I hope that when they see an athlete like Quinn, they are a regular and normal person.”

It certainly seems that way. Quinn is a woman - albeit with some very strange ideas about herself - playing in the women’s comp!

Did someone say ‘stunning’ and ‘brave’?