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[Lucy Zelić @LucyZelic]

Last week, I received an impassioned email from a Muslim woman and mother who plays for a team in the North West Sydney Football Association. She wrote to them in May this year to express her concerns about competing against trans-identified males.

“As a Muslim female player, I’m concerned with the male born players who “identify as a female" and play in our “female” competition,” she wrote.

“For religious reasons, Muslim women are not allowed to touch or be touched by men who are not either their husband or a close relative. As you know, soccer is a contact sport. My religion does not accept or understand the statement “identity as a female”. You are either born male or born female.”

She went on to ask crucial questions:

“…how is allowing male born players [to] play within a female side inclusive when it excludes other female born players who have rights to play too. Why should I now need to find out if there are male born players within a team just so I can play. And, if there are male born players within the team, why should I (and other Muslim female born players) be forced not to play.  How is this inclusive?”

She was ignored.

On June 12, just over two weeks after her initial email, she sent a follow-up, asking for someone to respond to her concerns.

“Can someone please come back to me regarding my concerns,” she asked.

The following day on June 13, the CEO of @nwsfootball_ finally responded and asked for “the best number” to contact her on to discuss her concerns.

That same day, she responded to say:

“I would actually prefer NWSF to address my concerns in writing.”

She was ignored.

On June 21, she wrote again to the CEO to highlight the fact that a week had passed and that she was still awaiting a response.

She was ignored.

On June 25, she sent another follow-up email requesting a response by COB, 27 June.

Once again, she was ignored and as of today, is still yet to receive a reply from the Association.

What an absolute and utter disgrace.

You see, the issue of trans-identified males competing against females isn’t just reserved for “radical feminists”, “bigots”, “transphobes” and “Nazis” - it’s discriminating against women of faith, women who have legitimate safety concerns, sexual assault survivors, women like this one who told me that she “loves” playing football and that she doesn’t want to forfeit or miss games just to prove a point - she just wants to play.

As she rightly pointed out in her original email to the Association:

“Where is the inclusiveness and duty of care for us female born players?  Who is looking after our best interest and mental health?”

“Like myself, a lot of female born players use sport as an outlet for their mental health. Why does the mental health of male born players take precedence over the mental health of female born players? How is this not being sexist and prejudiced towards people who are born female?”

These issues aren’t made up or imaginary, they are having real world effects and impacting women at the grassroots level. One club President within the North West Sydney Football Association has already publicly revealed that he has lost all of his female players - 98% of them over this very issue.

Is this what the future of women’s
sport looks like @AnikaWells ?

Is this how our women of faith deserve to be treated @SenKatyG ?

Is this the kind of country we want our women and girls to grow up in Prime Minister Albanese?

To the Australian women out there feeling let down by those in power, do not lost hope. The fight for our rights to single-sex spaces isn’t over - it’s only just begun.

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[Lucy Zelić @LucyZelic]

Hi Caroline. Whilst I understand how important it is to your cause to cast me as a villainous bigot, I can assure you that my position doesn’t stem from any of the feelings you think I have towards the trans community - but from my passion to preserve and protect the rights of women. You’ve interpreted my defence of women, and the injustices that have been levelled against anyone who speaks out on these issues, as an attack on the trans community - but we are simply wanting the truth, and our birthrights to be recognised by the law and the Fourth Estate.

Women’s rights are human rights. Trans rights are human rights but your biology, needs, history, trials and tribulations are vastly different to those of women. The attempt to conflate the two is what has created this chaos.

There was a quote in your article from 2022 that struck me:

“To everyone speaking about the ban under the guise of 'fairness', what I'd like to say is - you don't see us, nor hear us, so please don't speak up for us as though you know us when we're not given the same opportunity to speak for ourselves about our own lives as you are.”

You’ll have to forgive me for acknowledging that there is an enormous amount of irony when you say that you’re “not given the opportunity to speak for our ourselves about your own lives as you are”. Your article was published by Mamamia - “a women’s media company with a purpose: to make the world a better place for women and girls.” You also appeared in the same segment I did, produced by Channel 10’s The Project, in which I was the only person advocating for the rights of women, while the rest supported the trans community and criticised my stance, and that of World Netball.

The reason my views on the inclusion of trans participants in sport exists is because you have been seen and heard - by our politicians, the legal system and by a large proportion of the sporting organisations who continue to allow participants to compete in the category of their “affirmed gender”.

You have been seen by national and global brands like Seafolly, Adidas, Nike, Bud Light and L’Oreal Paris who have used trans and gender diverse representatives to spruik their products - products that were designed for women.

You have also been heard by vital healthcare organisations who apologise to your community for using the term cervix, instead of “front hole”. As a mother who breastfed for four years, I am now referred to as a “chest-feeder” and a “person who menstruates” while everyone is rushing to call you a woman.

When members of your community speak, you are encouraged by politicians, sporting organisations and companies. When members of my community speak about the importance of preserving sex-based rights, many of whom are sexual assault victims, women of Jewish Orthodox, Muslim and Christian faiths, mothers, fathers, men and girls - they are dragged to court, silenced, threatened with the loss of their livelihood, called “bigots”, “transphobes”, “Nazis” and cancelled.

I couldn’t even get the CEO of my beloved sport to simply acknowledge the existence of girls and women in his response to me because the organisation is more concerned about offending your community than they are mine.

I have never advocated for the exclusion of trans people in sport or society and never will. Given your history with sport, imagine if all the energy you channeled into denigrating women like me was redirected positively back into your community to connect with sporting organisations and create teams for trans participants, tournaments, Cups and even a category at the Olympics. Your triumphs, trophies, records and history wouldn’t be subjected to constant scrutiny and women who have worked their entire lives to thrive in sport would no longer be disadvantaged.

But, for as long as our differences in opinion, and the conflation of our rights continue to exist, rest assured that I will fight to make my voice heard, just as you have yours.

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