{"id":225264,"date":"2023-12-14T10:44:44","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T10:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allworldreport.com\/?p=225264"},"modified":"2023-12-14T10:44:44","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T10:44:44","slug":"transgender-aussie-first-biological-male-to-become-a-world-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allworldreport.com\/sport\/transgender-aussie-first-biological-male-to-become-a-world-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Transgender Aussie first biological male to become a world champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> Transgender Australian becomes the first biological male to become a world champion in a women&#8217;s sport &#8211; and rivals are NOT happy<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A transgender Australian is the women&#8217;s croquet world champion\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Jamie Gumbrell, 23, won the tournament in Sussex in August\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>But her rivals are not happy that she participated\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Furious croquet players have been left feeling &#8216;quite sick&#8217; after a transgender Australian became the women&#8217;s world champion.<\/p>\n<p>Jamie Gumbrell, from Canberra, won the Women&#8217;s Golf Croquet Championship in August but it has since emerged that the 23-year-old, who identified as a man up until 2019, is a transgender competitor.<\/p>\n<p>The World Croquet Federation changed its rules two years ago, permitting competititors to nominate their own gender.<\/p>\n<p>But rival members have now spoken out against her, with The Telegraph reporting that some competitors were unaware they would compete against a biological male at the tournament in Sussex.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They also argued that Gumbrell had advantages in strength because she was born a male.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/14\/09\/78952703-12863079-image-a-1_1702545079048.jpg\" height=\"871\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Croquet has been hit by a transgender row after Jamie Gumbrell won the women&#8217;s world title<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;There was a huge amount of disquiet,&#8217; Sue Lightbody, a member of England&#8217;s team at the World Championship, told the same outlet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But nobody was prepared to say or do anything. I was quite sick about the situation. We thought it would go against us, that we wouldn&#8217;t be picked for another team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Everything was hush-hush, everyone was worried about being called transphobic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;People told me not to get involved, saying, &#8220;Don&#8217;t do anything, you&#8217;ll make yourself very unpopular.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But this just shouldn&#8217;t happen. It fundamentally isn&#8217;t fair.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ian Burridge, president of the WCF, responded: &#8216;The fact that Jamie was assigned male at birth is not disputed by anyone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Jamie now identifies as female as her entry into the world championship was determined in accordance with our policy, approved by our members in April 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We welcome feedback, given the concerns that exist.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Since identifying as female, Gumbrell has won every tournament she has competed in, according to The Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p>Gumbrell defeated Rachel Gee of England 7-2 in the final, with the original report claiming Gee was crying behind her sunglasses during the trophy presentation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/14\/09\/78952705-12863079-image-a-2_1702545083898.jpg\" height=\"845\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Gumbrell, 23, was born a biological male and her rivals argue she has an unfair advantage<\/p>\n<p>Lightbody added that Gumbrell&#8217;s strength advantage was unfair on the rest of the competition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;A key shot in golf croquet is the jump shot,&#8217; she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If you&#8217;re on the boundary, you can jump over a couple of balls and get through a hoop. I can only do mid-jumps, I can&#8217;t do one from the baseline.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But Jamie can. That is a huge advantage over a woman.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Gumbrell first played croquet aged 15 after being introduced to the sport by her grandparents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They took Jamie to the Canberra Croquet Club where she has been a member since,&#8217; reads her biography on the Golf Croquet Women&#8217;s world championship website. &#8216;Peter Freer mentored and taught her how to play.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/othersports\/article-12863079\/Transgender-Aussie-biological-male-world-champion.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transgender Australian becomes the first biological male to become a world champion in a women&#8217;s sport &#8211;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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