Transgender athletes playing women's and girls' ice hockey are reaching a boiling point in England as parents express fear that their teenage daughters will face biological men in the sport.
Ice hockey players as young as 14 have played against transgender girls in the sport, The Telegraph reported on Saturday. An anonymous father told the outlet that his 15-year-old daughter was playing in a game in which a transgender competitor hit a female opponent in the head and neck.
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Parents expressed their concerns to The Telegraph. (iStock)
“I'm watching my 15-year-old daughter confront grown men and thinking this is not right,” the man told The Telegraph. “It's dangerous, it's unfair and there's no good reason for it. Any of these men could play on the mixed teams that exist, but they insist on playing on the women's team.
“Ice hockey is a physical game, and if you go toe-to-toe with a man as a 15-year-old girl, there is obviously a difference in strength. There are also much higher levels of aggression in men's ice hockey and then “These players are going to play on women's teams. I was furious when I saw the player being beaten.”
An adult female hockey player who plays in an amateur league also expressed her concerns to the newspaper.
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“I heard from a woman who plays on a different team than mine that the parents of a younger player will not take that player to a game where they know a biological male is playing on the opposite team,” the hockey player said. “So that girl is being excluded from her sport because of the presence of a biological male in the women's league.”
English ice hockey organizations are reviewing their transgender policies. (iStock)
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England Ice Hockey and Ice Hockey UK are currently reviewing their transgender policies. However, Ice Hockey UK president Lord Clifton Wrottesley suggested allowing transgender athletes to compete against women was akin to doping in sports.
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