Not Three Steps…

But more like a major blow to trans people… the bigots won.

Transgender women in rugby union: Mixed reaction to World Rugby decision
BBC
10 October 2020


World Rugby's decision to prevent transgender women from competing at the highest levels of the women's game has provoked a mixed reaction.

The move has been criticised by LGBT charity Stonewall, while some women's rights and gay rights campaigners have welcomed the decision.

New guidelines published on Friday "do not recommend" transgender women play contact rugby "on safety grounds".

National unions can be flexible in their application of the guidelines at community level.

Stonewall says it is "deeply disappointed" with the decision, but Fair Play for Women - which "works to protect the rights of women and girls in the UK" - thanked World Rugby "for not trading away women's safety".

"The proposals were based on hypothetical data modelling that has little relevance to the questions of fairness and safety in rugby that the policy review sought to address," said Stonewall chief executive Nancy Kelley.

A gay and lesbian organization stabbed us in the back.

However, Bev Jackson, co-founder of the LGB Alliance, said the organisation "applauds World Rugby for conducting a thorough, evidence-based study and making a decision on that basis to protect safety in women's rugby. We are very pleased that they resisted political pressure and kept to scientific facts. Many lesbians play this sport and they are enormously relieved."

She added that "judging by the reactions we have received, a great many LGB people and indeed many trans people think this was the right decision".

It was based on bogus research, how do I know?  Because it was based on “based on hypothetical data modelling” you can model anything but the answer might not reflect reality the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has allowed trans women to compete in women’s events since 2004 and there has not been a single injury caused by a trans woman.

Their study deems to be based on the old saying in about computers… Garbage In Garbage Out (GIGO).

Speaking to BBC Sport in August, Grace McKenzie, a trans woman who plays for Golden Gate Women's rugby club in San Francisco, said she was worried "that other sporting federations will look at World Rugby and begin to second-guess the existing science that supports trans women's inclusion in sport, and begin to make policies based out of a place of fear instead of a place of logic and reason".

"I want to be able to participate fully with my team and in the sport that I love. I think that there is still a path forward to allow us to do that," she said.

If what the rugby union said is true then Ms. McKenzie would have left a trail of bodies in her wake, but not a single women was injured by her because she is trans.