10-22-2018, 10:55 PM
We're living in times where there is an admirable effort to increase awareness and accommodate a lot more than in past years and decades. This applies to many things in life. But there still needs to be healthy, conscious, intelligent boundaries.
Many folks are asking, and quite rightly so, 'how would you like Hannah competing against your daughter?' Well, you wouldn't like it. But if we ask that question we also must ask the question, 'what would I feel/think if Hannah was my daughter and she wanted to play footy?' Remember, this is not a whim, she is passionate about playing. I guess the first thing I would say to her is, 'please be prepared to experience first hand the worst and best of human nature, in varying proportions. You'll be hated, misunderstood, ridiculed and generally mocked/abused. As a father I don't want to see you hurt but I also want you to be happy and to support you in the things you love to do.' Then we'd talk.
Hannah's plight is significantly compounded by the fact that she was a big bloke. Had she been 165cm and 55kgs as a bloke, or even 178 and 70 there would likely not be the, understandable, outcry that there is. I guess a very crude comparison might be allowing Maxon Cox to play with elevated (above the rest) testosterone levels.
Many folks are asking, and quite rightly so, 'how would you like Hannah competing against your daughter?' Well, you wouldn't like it. But if we ask that question we also must ask the question, 'what would I feel/think if Hannah was my daughter and she wanted to play footy?' Remember, this is not a whim, she is passionate about playing. I guess the first thing I would say to her is, 'please be prepared to experience first hand the worst and best of human nature, in varying proportions. You'll be hated, misunderstood, ridiculed and generally mocked/abused. As a father I don't want to see you hurt but I also want you to be happy and to support you in the things you love to do.' Then we'd talk.
Hannah's plight is significantly compounded by the fact that she was a big bloke. Had she been 165cm and 55kgs as a bloke, or even 178 and 70 there would likely not be the, understandable, outcry that there is. I guess a very crude comparison might be allowing Maxon Cox to play with elevated (above the rest) testosterone levels.
Only our ruthless best, from Board to bootstudders will get us no. 17