Jackson Irvine: Socceroos Star Slams football bosses for prohibiting trans -players from sport after the decision of the Bombshell Court
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- Jackson Irvine focuses on FA for prohibiting transgender players
- He is the most controversial male player to talk about the issue
Soccerose Midfielder Jackson Irvine has publicly closed the ban of the English football club transgender women in ladies’ footballdescribing the decision as hypocritical.
Irvine, 32, who is the captain of German Bundesliga Team St Pauli, expressed his frustration with the recent decision of the FA.
The prohibition, announced on May 1have consequences of players from the basis who were previously allowed to participate under the previous policy.
The FA made the move after the UK Supreme Court ruled that the words ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ in the Equality Act refer to an biological woman and biological sex.
Irvine responded to the decision by posting on social media: ‘Football deserves better. Our game is for everyone. ‘
This week he went more in detail about his feelings about the issue while he appeared on the ‘Real Talk’ podcast by Sky Sports’.

The Australian footballer Jackson Irvine (depicted with wife Jemilla) has destroyed the FA for banning transgender players
“For me, football always felt the place where we would not be so harsh, especially in the immediate aftermath of what is already a really worrying decision for all transgender people and strange people in the country,” he said.
‘It was really disappointing – especially from a federation that supported Rainbow Laces campaigns and has been very clear in their rhetoric about football that takes away so quickly from a small group of football players who want to do nothing but enjoy the game that we all love.
“It was real, really disappointing to see that statement came out.”
There has been an enormous amount of support for the forbidden players from the women’s football community – including stars such as Anita Asante, Kerstin Casparji and Katie Startup.
But Irvine remains the biggest name in the men’s game to publicly say that he is against the ban.
Asked why that was the case, Irvine replied: “I still think we have a long way to have a long way in football, and especially men’s football, to be confident to speak about social issues, let alone when it comes to LGBTQ rights and things that where players may not be confident or supported to even lay those explanations themselves.”
The football player continued to say that he would like to see more people say about this.
“The game has made progress,” he said.
‘We are generation in a more accepting and open space as football players and in our communities.

Irvine described the recent decision as “heavily handy” and said: “Our game is for everyone”

Irvine said that most male football players do not have confidence to speak of problems such as LGBTQ rights
“I would like to see more people meet when we try to take away rights from our colleague footballers, and try to do everything we can to ensure that everyone who plays our game has a safe and inclusive room to play the game that we all love.”
Since the ruling was pronounced, the ultimate pool group has updated its policy to prohibit Trans Women, after he also received a report that Pool was a sport affected by gender.
The global administrative body of Snooker, the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association, also revised his policy.
The pronunciation of the UK Supreme Court is interpreted as transgender women, who are biologically male but identify as women, can be excluded from only women’s spaces such as toilets and changing rooms.
The judges said that transgenoten are still protected against discrimination under legislation of equals, and that this interpretation of the law does not cause any disadvantage for the ‘potentially vulnerable group’.
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