Source: Women are Human
AU — . A 6′ 3, 250 lb footballer who previously pushed to play in the women’s Australian Football League (AFLW) has announced legal action against the AFL over its new eligibility requirements for male players wanting to play with women. According to PerthNow, the updated policy specifies that male players seeking to play in the AFLW must keep their testosterone levels under a certain limit and provide the league with documentation related to physical testing requirements.
In a verbose statement posted to Twitter on January 15, 2021, the footballer – who currently goes by the name Hannah Mouncey – outlined numerous questions for the AFL to answer “as the bare minimum” for “a process to be considered transparent and for all parties to be able to have faith in the process”.
It must also be noted that the current policy states that even if a player satisfies all criteria the AFL sets out, the AFL reserves the right to refuse the player the ability to play and no reason needs to be given https://t.co/2Q0ASXib1T
— Hannah Mouncey (@HannahMouncey) January 15, 2021
The questions often include various allegations, along with Mouncey’s preferred answers to the questions posed. For example, Mouncey insinuates that women might make “vexatious” safety complaints – and thus, stipulates (as part of this “question”) that it would be “vital” that a (male) player be allowed to continue playing while a safety complaint is reviewed.
Under the new rules, Mouncey remains eligible to play in the Women’s AFL Canberra Second Grade competition, but not the First Grade level. However, this conciliatory policy approach is unacceptable to the footballer, who describes it as “discriminatory”, “not fit for purpose and in many ways offensive”.
In 2017, Mouncey was not permitted to play in AFLW due to concerns over women’s safety, and claimed that “the treatment the AFL’s given me has been pretty s–t” as the reason for withdrawing from the 2018 draft application process.
Next, Mouncey, who had previously played on the men’s national handball team, joined the women’s national team. However, prior to the December 2019 Handball World Championships, the female players and the team manager requested that Mouncey not shower with the women or use their change room before or after a game – requests which Mouncey considered “ludicrous”.
Mouncey was subsequently excluded from the world tournament for refusing to abide by these requests.
He dropped out of the team after the girls went 2 management to say they didnt want to share communal showers with him in a tournament to Tokyo. They arranged a seperate shower for him, but he threw a fit-he’s a woman & ‘inclusivity’ & all that. They stuck by the girls & he quit.
— ♀️ Sal Robins🟥#IStandWithJKR ♀️ (@Sal_Robins) December 22, 2019
And the reason I’m not liked is because I told our manager, and by extension those players, exactly where he and they could go in trying to tell me where I could change and shower.
Hannah Mouncey, reacting to a request not to shower and change with the female players
