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Charlton women news - (2025-26 fixtures are on page 106)
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Chizz said:redman said:Chizz said:clive said:
Transgender women will no longer be able to play in women's football in England from 1 June, the Football Association has announced.
English football's governing body amended its rules last month, applying stricter eligibility criteria for transgender women to continue playing in women's football.
Following the UK Supreme Court's ruling that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex, the FA has scrapped that policy and banned transgender women from participating in women's football.
I'm my view, each sport should make its own decisions and rulings on this issue, as there are so many differences between sports. It shouldn't be decided by government, imposing a decision on all sports, from above.
So it's to be applauded that the FA has been allowed to make its own decision and timing; but in my view the decision is worrying, wrong, harmful and fraught with unintended consequences.
Isn't there a little bit more to it than that? For example, now, for the first time ever, a woman may be required to "prove" that she's a biological woman in order to play. What's the process for that? How does it get judged? Who judges it? When? How?
And, does the ruling allow - or even require - that transmen who play football, to be allowed to play women's football? That is, a biological woman, who has undergone gender reassignment, taken male hormone medication, become significantly more muscular and grown a beard, then that person is free to play women's football? Is that what everyone wants?
"End of"? Wishful thinking, I imagine.
In any event, I don't believe the practicalities involved in policing a policy should prevent it coming into force. Plenty of folk break the law of the land and evade punishment. Should we therefore change the laws? The tail shouldn't wag the dog.
0.1% of the population are trans men, or so I read, so the bearded lady scenario you ask our opinion on applies only to the number of that tiny proportion that want to play women's football. It could happen, but so could many other unlikely scenarios that don't have contingencies in place to cover.
You ask if I'd like to see it? The answers no, but I'm not really expecting to, other than in very rare and isolated incidents. It's not 'end of' I agree, but it's the end of my contribution on this, and it's just my opinion.
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Swindon_Addick said:Is there any chance this particular discussion could move to its own thread? As the BBC article says, the number of trans footballers at any level in the professional game in the UK is precisely zero, and there are only a handful registered as amateurs. I have my own views on this issue, particularly in relation to recreational sport and encouraging participation, but Charlton's women's team is a full-time professional outfit and this issue has nothing to do with us whatsoever.
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Nice to see that members of the FA cup winning team will be at Saturdays mens match and presented pitch side5
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And here are those museum items.
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Remember Palace haven't won either cup and we've won both. However high their ceiling is compared to us we always have that over them and long may it continue4
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Addicks 2 up after an hour or so, Roe with the first and Bradley the second shortly after1
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Streaming live on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnC-r0NJ3Dk&ab_channel=BarclaysWomen%E2%80%99sChampionship
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Finished 2-0
Emma Bissell came off the bench - nice to see her back2 -
Nice to finish with a victory1
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Congratulations to our U13 Academy team on clinching the treble winning the Tandridge Shield to go with the Tandridge League and London Cup5
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The LCL celebrations are really sad, more about the owner than the players who didn’t hard work. Makes TS look like a shrinking violet1
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Karen in post match interview says she wants to keep the same squad together.
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Henry Irving said:And here are those museum items.0
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Gloria Siber nominated for the Rising Star award at the Women's Professional Game Awards, congrats to her3
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Interesting to see Ellie Brazil won Player of the season, and players player.
Thought Hutton might win the Player of the season.1 - Sponsored links:
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The Championship will be rebranded as WSL2 from next season
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/crmkze3wyzdo0 -
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When will it move to 2 up 2 down for promotion/ relegation? Just having 1 up not good for the game.0
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They're talking about expanding both leagues - I reckon four years of having one team relegated and two teams promoted until you get 16 in each league would be good.0
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EpsomAddick said:They're talking about expanding both leagues - I reckon four years of having one team relegated and two teams promoted until you get 16 in each league would be good.0
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I still think they should just expand the league in one big go, so if they want the top division to be 16 you promote the top 4 one season, and then merge in the 3rd division into the 2nd and go from there.
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DyerConsequences said:Interesting to see Ellie Brazil won Player of the season, and players player.
Thought Hutton might win the Player of the season.1 -
sam3110 said:I still think they should just expand the league in one big go, so if they want the top division to be 16 you promote the top 4 one season, and then merge in the 3rd division into the 2nd and go from there.1
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An interesting excerpt from the CAST Q&A last week
[GC] noted that the current structure of the women's game in England is "difficult" and "the landscape of the game" is currently being reviewed with various reforms being discussed. Because of our history in the women's game we have a leading role in those discussions.
https://www.castrust.org/2025/05/gavin-carter-assume-positive-intent/0 -
Also to add that CAST are engaging with the club more now on the development of the women's game/ team. The CAST constitution was changed at the AGM several years back to ensure the definition of "club" clearly encompassed both men's and women's. Recently Charlton were using a line that the club invests more as a % of turnover in the women than any other club - CAST pointed out the flaw in this statistic - our turnover is low because the men are in League One and it isn't right to frame our investment in CAFCW based on the success or otherwise of the men.
Gavin is right that there are plenty of challenges around the financing and development of the women's game - hopefully these will become opportunities and Charlton will be in the thick of it.
Here's another graphic of the new look:2