Women are BANNED from Twitter for speaking out about transgender Dublin ladies footballer player
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A 30-year-old transgender woman was allowed to play in a Gaelic football womens’ cup final against young female players.
Giulia Valentino saw her team Na Gaeil Aeracha, the sport’s first openly LGBT+ team, lift the Dublin Junior J Shield trophy after beating Na Fianna’s ladies E team.
But as a much older biological male competing against 16-year-old biological females, Valentino’s presence in the team sparked concern both at the match itself and online.
While the Na Fianna coach raised concerns about the much older player to the referee at the time, some on Twitter claim women are having their accounts suspended for speaking out against Valentino’s inclusion on the team.
On August 7 the Ladies Gaelic Football Association (LGFA) released a statement where they said they are ‘developing a policy around transgender players, after an objection was noted about a transgender player playing in the ladies’ Shield Final in Dublin’.
The Gaelic player known as Guilia Valentino reportedly raised concerns with the opposing team and many have commented on their appearance on Twitter – leading to their accounts being banned by the platform
Independent.ie reports Valentino, originally from Italy, moved to Dublin in 2019 and began playing for a rugby club before getting injured.
She claimed she wanted to play a women’s game ‘because of sisterhood, validation and political visibility’.
Valentino has previously been outspoken about allowing transgender woman to play on women’s teams, criticising World Rugby last year for its decision not to allow it at an elite level.
‘I am quite annoyed by this harsh approach,’ she said at the time.
She has also opened up about being asked to use a separate changing room while playing rugby in Dublin.
At the final at the beginning of August, the match referee stopped the game after the first break in play to tell Valentino’s team, ‘the player is a man’, adding it was ‘a problem’.
After Valentino’s captain reportedly explained the player was a transgender woman, the referee said that the other side had the right to appeal the final result of the match.
Farrah said ‘where’s the hate?’ and others said ‘was this the very obvious footballer?’
Baroness Foster agreed with Farrah and others who had their account suspended, saying the platform needed to have a ‘serious rethink’
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The 30-year-old was taken off after sustaining an injury but put back on the field after she had been treated. She was later substituted again at half-time.
After news of Valentino’s inclusion on the team began to circulate on Twitter, women expressed their concern about how a 30-year-old biological male was allowed to compete against young women – and many claim they have been banned from the platform for doing so.
One woman, called Farrah, tweeted: I’m back after being locked out of my account since August 5 for “hateful conduct”.
‘Let me say upfront. I DISAGREE. I called a man a man. Where’s the hate?’
She added she had to delete earlier tweets she had posted about Valentino before the platform would reverse her suspension.
Camille Svastics, who says she is a lesbian, said: ‘I’m in Facebook jail for the same.’
Another Twitter user, @pandemicponcho, claimed she was also suspended.
She told FEMAIL: ‘I think it is preposterous. Twitter clearly has it’s own agenda and considers this to be hate speech. Utterly bonkers.
‘Seemingly many individuals have had their accounts locked or suspended by merely pointing out a scientific truth.’
Heather Binning of the women’s rights network has said: ‘The women who have been suspended from Twitter are the latest in a long line of women – and some men – who have been banned from the social media platform for stating the truth.
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‘Of course, no one should abuse others on social media. But Twitter – and other sites – is colluding in the lie about biological facts. We have known people banned for ‘misgendering’, calling a man a ‘man’ or using ‘he’ or ‘him’ pronouns. And I’m afraid that it seems women – and particularly lesbians – who speak out on these issues are most vulnerable.
‘It’s no wonder the hashtag #twitterhateswomen is regularly trending.’
One woman, who posts under the handle @redawakening reportedly had her account suspended for saying ‘100 per cent of rapes are committed by men’.
People rose to her defense, with one Twitter use saying: ‘Hey @TwitterSupport, you have suspended @redawakening for stating that all rapes in the UK are committed by men. This is a fact written into UK law. I’m sure this is a silly mistake? Maybe reconsider?’
A prominent women’s lawyer and activist Sarah Phillimore has had her home address and picture publicly posted after speaking out on women’s rights with regard to gender.
She posted the tweet, that had a google maps tag for her home address and said: ‘This is what women have to face, I will see what Twitter does. To be fair to Wiltshire police the last man who did this was arrested.’
Sarah told FEMAIL it was ‘unsettling’ and ‘distressing’ – and claimed her personal details were online for more than 12 hours before they were eventually deleted.
She added: ‘It is ridiculous and enraging that we are supposed to accept that an obvious male person, bigger, stronger and faster than his female team mate/opponent is a woman.
‘It is dangerous for the women playing the sport as well as a denial of our right to speak about material reality.’
Sarah also said the women were being ‘targeted’ for their political views.
Another woman recently banned from Twitter is Allison Bailey, a prominent lesbian lawyer who recently hit headlines after winning £22,000 discrimination case in court.
The tribunal upheld her complaint against GCC over her view that no-one can change their biological sex, with her take on this subject being found to be protected in law.
She had been branded ‘transphobic’ but says she is an LGB ally on her own personal blog.
Author J.K Rowling has shown public support for Allison Bailey, and is often blasted for her views on gender on Twitter.
She called the barrister a ‘heroine’ during the tribunal saying in a tweet: ‘She is refusing to abandon her beliefs and principles in the face of intimidation and discrimination.’
She has also been dubbed ‘transphobic’ but upholds her sentiment that ‘Women have a right to safety in sport, prisons and toilets.’
With regard to Valentino, she has however remained silent on Twitter.