JK Rowling leads criticism after transgender lady managing girls’s soccer membership is widely known

Sutton United, a girls’s soccer membership in England that performs within the London and South East Ladies’s Regional Soccer League, made historical past earlier this 12 months when it named Lucy Clark as their supervisor. Clark is the primary transgender supervisor in girls’s soccer historical past.

Clark was initially the primary transgender girls to be a referee. Clark was a referee within the third tier of girls’s soccer in England. Clark, on the time, known as the appointment to supervisor of Sutton United “form of a dream come true,” based on BBC.

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On Saturday, Pleasure UK – an LGBTQIA+ advocacy group – expressed assist for Clark because the supervisor of Sutton United, touting Clark’s rise from being a referee to now main a soccer membership. The submit garnered a ton of response.

“Once I was younger all of the soccer managers have been straight, white, middle-aged blokes, so it is implausible to see how a lot issues have modified,” “Harry Potter” creator J.Okay. Rowling wrote on X.

Australian lawyer Katherine Deves Morgan wrote, “Center-aged bloke celebrated for cross-dressing on the soccer discipline. What a straightforward technique to make your self the centre of consideration.”

British politician Jayda Fransen added that Clark’s appointment was “offensive to each women and men.”

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“Males up & down the nation handle soccer groups, many are volunteers however they aren’t celebrated as a result of they don’t put on wigs,” Fransen wrote. “Since that is one other man in a predominantly male function, it’s NOT an uncommon achievement, only a man mocking girls.”

Clark responded to the remarks on X.

“One other day of hate fuelled transphobia in opposition to me… however hey guess what I’m dwelling my finest life,” Clark wrote. “Get up on a regular basis with my lovely household round me. On a regular basis I snort and have issues to look ahead too. Who’s successful at life… the one who’s blissful and smiling or these hating?

“So JK, Posie, Glinner and the remainder of you on the market hating on my group and myself guess what IDGAF… you retain hating and I’ll carry on smiling and dwelling my finest life. Possibly it is best to all give it a strive eh.”

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The London and South East Ladies’s Regional Soccer League is within the fifth tier of girls’s soccer. Sutton United is eighth within the standings.

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