Over the past several months, the debate regarding whether or not transgender women should be permitted to compete in girls’ and women’s sports has become one of the hottest issues in politics across the world, and a new story added more fuel to that debate this week.
According to a report from The Daily Mail Australia, a team that featured five transgender women recently won the pre-season Beryl Ackroyd Cup tournament, which is a women’s soccer tournament in Sydney, Australia. With the victory, the team also claimed a pretty substantial cash prize.
“Flying Bats FC won every game they played over the course of the four-week competition, winning the grand final 4-0 at Macquarie Park on Sunday to take home the $1000 jackpot,” The Daily Mail Australia reported this week.
“There were huge winning margins in some games, with one trans player scoring six goals in a 10-0 victory.”
The team, which calls itself Flying Bats FC, says that it is “the biggest LGBTQIA+ women’s and non-binary football club in the world.”
The Daily Mail Australia reports that there were several complaints after the team was allowed to compete in the tournament and dominate as players were not aware that transgender women would be participating.
