For years people have debated whether it’s fair for transgender women to compete against biological women in sport, considering the physical advantages that come with being born male. Well, it’s clear what one group of parents over in Sydney, Australia, think about the matter, with a row erupting this week over a youth football/soccer team consisting of 5 transgender players who won the Beryl Ackroyd Cup with apparent ease.

Flying Bats FC won every game they played over the course of the four-week competition, winning the grand final 4-0 at Macquarie Park on Sunday to take home the $1000 jackpot.

What’s more, some of the games were pure demolition jobs, with one trans player scoring six goals in a 10-0 victory. Not even Messi has managed that! Well, he might’ve done if he ever played in a women’s league.

Furious parents have now withdrawn their daughters from games due to safety concerns, telling News Corp that players were unaware that they had signed up to compete against biological males.

Club officials have also contacted Football New South Wales to express their concerns, with some suggesting that the Flying Bats should play in the mixed competition, which includes men.

A senior club official told the Daily Telegraph:

Our girls are here to play for fun and expect to play in the female competition. They did not sign up for a mixed competition. There’s no transparency from Football NSW, the girls don’t know if they are going to be playing biological males or not. Some of the parents were so concerned they would not let their daughters play … It was so disheartening for them to see the huge ­difference in ability – they’re killing it.

On the Flying Bats’ official website, they claim they are ‘the biggest LGBTQIA+ women’s and non-binary football club in the world’, so clearly it’s something they take a lot of pride in and would suggest they actively seek trans players to join their club.

Obviously it’s important that everyone has a space to play sports and be included no matter what their sex or gender identity, but it does seem like common sense needs to be applied in situations like this to ensure things remain fair, safe and competitive.

If the sports bodies of Australia aren’t going to do anything about it, then I suppose parents withdrawing their girls from the competitions makes sense and will hopefully force some kind of intervention that ensures sporting integrity going forward in all levels of all sports. Surely there’s a compromise to be made in there somewhere.

For the anti-trans MMA star who offered to fight 10 trans men in a row, click HERE. Is that happening or what?