8 MEMBERS OF FEMALE SOCCER TEAM ARE MEN !!!
8
MEMBERS OF FEMALE SOCCER TEAM ARE MEN !!!
The Iranian women's national
soccer team react after withdrawing from their qualifying match against Jordan
for the 2012 London Olympic Games in Amman June 3, 2011. The Iranian team were
banned from the match on Friday in the second round of qualifiers in protest
against guidelines on their veil. The FIFA woman's association requires that
any covering used does not cover the neck and ears. In Iran all women are
required to cover their hair in public to conform to the Islamic dress code.
REUTERS/Ali Jarekji (JORDAN - Tags: SPORT SOCCER RELIGION) - RTR2N9IK
It has
been discovered that Iranian soccer officials filled the women’s soccer team
with eight big, strong, fast men.
Iranian
soccer officials are accused of taking advantage of a sports policy which
allows biological men to play on women’s teams if they believe they are women
trapped in men’s bodies. This policy was announced by the International Olympic
Committee and allows men to participate in Olympic events without undergoing
sex change procedures.
When the
policy was announced, people worried that some countries would take advantage
of the policies and replace their female athletes with men and just as feared,
it happened, starting with Iran.
Iranian
official, Mojtabi Sharifi, admitted that the men were waiting for sex
change operations.
Reacting
to this, soccer authorities have ordered that all 8 men undergo gender testing
to determine their levels of testosterone. This isn’t the first time the
Iranian women’s team has fielded men. There were rumors that the players were
men in 2011 and random gender checks in 2014 revealed some of the supposed
women were men.
The
problem is complicated by the Iranian culture which prohibits women from
traveling unless they are given permission by their husbands or fathers. For
example, Niloufar Ardalan who was recently prevented from accompanying the
soccer team to a game in Malaysia because her husband would not allow her to
travel.
