Hey come on fellers, don't knock it.

I would have loved the chance to tackle some of the girls I went to school with, on the football field or anywhere else, for that matter.

What's the difference between an expressed right and your God given sexual bias? Everything! It's is like saying, expressing your, for you normality, is some sort of right? And covered by NORMAL human rights!

What's next? That breathing the same air on or off the field of sporting endevour is some sort of right?

We don't have a right to vilify anyone of a different race! Nor should we have a RIGHT to do so because of other difference!

It's not that long ago when mixed race marriage would have been illegal!

It's like some still believe in their tiny minds that a few people chose to be born different! Regardless of that difference be it race or natural sexual orientation! Choice has never ever been an option!

As far as I know there's no social engineering on the sporting field, save by those, ignorance personified, who still believe even now, that difference is fair game!

Bring on the next election! Which will no doubt be a binding plebiscite on us all!? And expect the party having a fair dinkum fair go policy on equality and inherently fair treatment on and off the sporting field to win in a veritable landslide!
Alan B.

Never mind of course that winning is everything competitive sport is itself a very potent form of social engineering. See for instance the book No Contest by Alfie Kohn.
They are also an expression of the cult of the body, and with overtones of fascism in large scale stadium events.
Meanwhile major sporting events are used to propagandize and glamorize all kinds of potentially harmful behaviors - alcohol,betting,junk food, and tobacco. Major televised sporting events are of course a huge (the biggest single) source of advertising revenue for the commercial TV networks.

Hey Alan B,
"The gender of sports people, or defence personnel, for that matter, is of little concern to those fair minded folk, who participate/also serve, just their ability, indomitable courage and form!"

Not unless you get killed in combat because of a incompetent female soldier they relaxed the rules for; or if you're a female athlete that has to always take second place to the new stars of women's sports 'transgenders'.