It is said that in the past two days, the famous British writer JK Rowling has had another yin and yang on the Internet, which has caused controversy.
(J.K. Rowling)
This time, the target of her criticism is Lucy Clark, the first transgender manager in England's top five women's football leagues.
(Lucy Clark)
Let's first introduce the head coach who is at the center of public opinion.
Lucy Clark, a biological sex male, calls herself a psychological sex woman, is a lesbian, so she has a wife.
(Clark and her wife)
Clark has refereed women's Division 3 matches and was the first transgender referee in football.
(When Clark was a referee)
She was chosen to coach the women's soccer team because of her coaching experience.
Prior to her transition, she coached a non-league men's soccer team at Essex and is now being hired by Sutton Women's Soccer with the aim of helping the team relegate.
Clarke is well aware of the prospects of his coaching career:
"Sometimes someone's words will hurt your heart, but I'm thick-skinned, I'll block out these voices and keep doing it.
I'm ready to face the blame, so I'm going to keep trying, and I'm not going to stop doing what I love because of who I am. ”
(Clark as a coach)
Such a coach is rightfully supported by the LGBTQ community, and a related account praised Clark on Twitter:
As the world's first openly transgender referee, Lucy Clarke made history by becoming the first transgender head coach in England's top five women's football leagues.
The former referee has now taken over as manager of Sutton United.
That's great! ”
(Image via Twitter)
This caused JK Rowling's dissatisfaction and made a lot of yin and yang......
She retweeted the post saying:
"When I was a child, all football managers were heterosexual, white, middle-aged men, and now it's nice to see such a big change~"
(Image via Twitter)
Although this passage of hers was criticized as very rude and cruel,
Many netizens also took advantage of JK Rowling's momentum to "charge" together:
"You know he's a man, we know he's a man, he knows he's a man, everybody knows everybody knows he's a man, but you're still pretending.
What a bullshit farce. ”
(Image via Twitter)
"Isn't this just an old man!"
(Image via Twitter)
"It's not news that an obese middle-aged man works in football."
(Image via Twitter)
Of course, there are also some netizens who are upset with Clark,
For example, she didn't hurt anyone by being a football manager, Clark was a good person in life, and JK Rowling's unprovoked attacks on her were too cruel......
In some ways, Clark really hasn't hurt anyone.
Regardless of whether she is a man or a woman, at least for now, she has not been exposed to any acts that endanger the safety and rights of women.
But it's no wonder that JK Rowling and those sensitive netizens are very dangerous, because in the eyes of many Britons, the British women's football team is very dangerous.
In recent times, there has been a lot of discussion about women's football in the UK and between transgender athletes.
Prior to this, the FA's transgender policy stipulated that players could apply to join their "gender-defined" leagues, which meant that a man could play in the women's game as long as he confirmed that he was a woman and that hormones such as testosterone remained below a certain level for a certain period of time.
(The same "female player", but someone developed strong muscles during puberty)
As a result, in November 2023, this policy led to a tragedy.
In a women's soccer team called Rosington Women's Team, a transgender player broke the knee of an opposing defender with a powerful volley, and even affected the player's future career.
After the match, four of Rosington Women's rival teams withdrew from the match, refusing to play with the transgender player.
(Prominent female athletes)
This was followed by 42 Conservative MPs, two Labour MPs, two Democratic MPs and one Alba MP, as well as 27 members of the House of Lords, signing a letter calling on the FA to take immediate action to ban all athletes born male from women's football in order to protect women and women's football.
However, in this environment, there is still a transgender person who has joined the women's football field. It's like going against everyone, since you can't have a transgender player on the field, then choose a trans coach.
(Clark)
When there is a contradiction between the public mind and the individual consciousness, when fair competition conflicts with the choice of the individual, it seems that they will always put each other in an unconvincing position.