Female athletes in the United States have obtained protection against transgender opponents by the latest decree of President Donald Trump, female athletes in Canada are still confronted with a national system that protects Trans athletes.
The Columbia Bible College (CBC) basketball team – an Evangelical Mennonite Bible College in Abbotsford, British Columbia – is now faced with sanctions by its sports conference, the Pacwest, about the disputed allegations of Abuse against a transgender opponent earlier this season.
CBC women’s female basketball coach Taylor Claggett is currently suspended, and the school has lost his right to welcome the next PACWEST championships after a recent conference investigation on an incident in a Match against the University of the island of Vancouver (VIU) on October 25. .
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“Pacwest publicly said that he had concluded his investigation. CBC is deeply disappointed with Pacwest’s decision. We do not think that an appropriate process has been followed or that the results were fair.
During the match of October 25, Viu’s Trans athlete, Harriette Mackenzie, alleged that Clagett “stuck one of our sports workers and made a tirade on the way I should not be allowed to play” . Mackenzie did these allegations in an Instagram post on October 30.
Mackenzie allegedly alleged that she had also been deliberately the victim of a fault on the ground by a CBC player.
“I was thrown with two hands on the ground by n ° 13 without play on the ball in sight, then the head coach Clagett can be seen applaud in support,” said the trans athlete.
Cagett published his own declaration on Instagram, saying that Mackenzie’s statements were inaccurate.
“My intention has nothing to do with a specific athlete, but rather the safety of female athletes in their sport,” she wrote.
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When the two teams were to be played again in a pair of matches in early January, VIU refused to participate, citing the alleged incident of October 25. Viu even asked Pacwest not to penalize his team for having pierced, in a statement he provided to PK Press Club Digital.
After the news of confiscation, CBC made a statement to PK Press Club Digital refusing the allegations of Mackenzie.
“It was a surprising news for us,” the statement said. “CBC means a safe game for everyone. The accusations that CBC, its coaches, players and fans are a security threat are simply false and poorly informed.”
A letter written by CBC players, obtained by PK Press Club Digital, condemned the VIU team for “personal attacks”, “defamatory comments” and even “comments that encourage violence”, against their coach .
“Videos and letters published by members of the VIU women’s basketball team in the last three months have directly violated several rules set out in article 17.2 of the manual. Various articles have included” personal attacks “, “Defamatory comments” The Pacwest, “led to” comments that encourage violence and / or hatred “directed against our coach,” said the letter.
“All the allegations made by the VIU players concerning our team and our coach should have been directly communicated to Pacwest managers alone, they should not have been downloaded publicly on social networks.”
The letter even called the declarations of the “disinformation” VIU players.
“The attack on the character of coach Claggett and the character of our team, in the last three months, have been based on a disinformation and one side of a complicated scenario,” he read.
Since June 2017, all places in Canada have to comply with the Canadian Human Rights Act, equal opportunities and / or anti-discrimination legislation prohibits discrimination against gender identity or ‘Expression of gender identity. This law protects the inclusion of all trans athletes in female and girls sports.
Trump’s recent decree in the United States said that any public institution that allows athletes to compete in the sports of girls or women will lose its federal funding.
Trump has also repeatedly suggested that Canada join the United States, potentially as a 51st state.
