My ten cents - at an amateur level the FA's requirements on trans players are ridiculously insensitive and serve to exclude many people from the grassroots game, aka I definitely agree that we as a club should take a stance against it. I equally strongly feel we should stick to our identity as a diverse, inclusive, trans-inclusive women's football club, because for me the women's game itself and the awesome sisterhood that comes with it is something really special, that's my personal take.

BTW here's a link to download the FA Policy, for context https://www.thefa.com/-/media/cfa/suffolkfa/files/the-fa-policy-on-trans-people-in-football.ashx

T x

On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 at 22:14, Woo Hall via football-women <football-women@eastoncowfolk.org.uk> wrote:
Re the name change.... noooooo way.


I fully embrace inclusivity, accessibility and solidarity with trans and non binary players 100%. 

Although I do not support ridding ourselves of our 'Cowgirl' name, our very connection to 'women's football' ....on the back of a history of women being banned from playing football, only progressing now in developed countries in the West. 
I am proud as a woman to be part of a generation that see's women/girls/us in sport actually being taken seriously. Why would we change our name???


Wendle xx



On Wed, 16 Nov 2022, 21:50 Rona A via football-women, <football-women@eastoncowfolk.org.uk> wrote:
I support the stance. 

However, I wholeheartedly disagree with changing our name. We should  be inclusive, but we don’t need to eradicate the use of the term ‘girls’ or ‘women’ to do so. Women/ girls is not an excluding term 

On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 at 17:28, Lizzie Winter via football-women <football-women@eastoncowfolk.org.uk> wrote:
Hi Cows,

We had a cowmittee meeting last night because Manchester Laces have asked for our support in their stance against the current FA policy regarding trans players. We submitted our support and will hopefully be on their website soon.


I've attached the minutes so have a read and let me know what you think and we can discuss it at our next meeting/after training.

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