Despite the obscurity the game is to the common sports fan, the woke ideology of biological men who identify as female dominating a women's sporting event has made its way over to the game of Croquet.
The World Croquet Federation – or WCF for short – saw some history that will bring more press to the game than expected as Australian Jamie Gumbrell beat out a former champion – Rachel Gee of England – to win a Woman's World Title, shocking the croquet community.
What made the victory shocking on the surface is that Gee is one of the very best female Croquet players in the world at the time of this publication. She was a European Golf Croquet champion in 2014 and 2018 and won the World Women’s Golf Croquet Championship in 2011.
What came as even more of a surprise to competitors and fans alike is that Gumbrell is a biological male who has transitioned into a female, thus making her the first transgender female to compete and win the world championship.
The later part of this made international headlines and the reactions by the female competitors have spread like wildfire over the week since the news broke.
According to reports made by The Telegraph last week, Gumbrell’s win sparked fury among female competitors as they said they did not realize a biological male would be a part of the competition until they arrived for the tournament in England.
"There was a huge amount of disquiet," Sue Lightbody, a member of the English team, told reporters following the conclusion of the match. "But nobody was prepared to say or do anything. I was quite sick about the situation.”
The veteran member of the English team feels that being a biological man gives Gumbrell a significant advantage as there are certain shots females cannot make in the game that the Australian woman was able to convert.
"A key shot in golf croquet is the jump shot," Lightbody said. "If you’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’t do one from the baseline. But Jamie can. That is a huge advantage over a woman."
Lightbody is one of the many females across the world who are seeing transgender women who were born male and have since “transitioned” to being a woman come and dominate women's sporting events.
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Gumbrell had previously competed in male croquet competitions as early as 2019 and was even seen as a rising star in the sport. The Victorian Croquet Association Inc. wrote on a Facebook post in February 2019 that Gumbrell finished in third place in a prestigious tournament.
After the COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns ended, Gumbrell returned to Croquet as a female and began to dominate the game as a biological man playing in the women’s ranks.
More comments about Gumbrell’s win have come out as the days have passed as one competitor has gone on to say they feel “sorry” for Gee.
"We never thought we would have this problem," the anonymous competitor said to multiple news outlets including FOX. "I really felt sorry in the final for Rachel, who at the end was hiding behind her sunglasses because she was crying. She didn’t complain. She had been training so hard to be the women’s world champion, and then someone born male comes and takes it away."
It’s gotten to the point that even Gumbrell’s fellow competitors from her home country have chimed in about how disgusted and embarrassed she was about a biological man winning the event.
“I apologize to the Women’s World Croquet Champion Rachel Gee for my fellow Australian, Jamie Gumbrell,” said Katherine Deves. Deves is a female croquet player from Australia who stated in a post on X this past week regarding Gumbrell, “A cosplaying male, who has shamefully stolen Rachel’s rightful place.”
Since the end of the Pandemic, the WCF has allowed these transgender women to compete in the women's ranks. Despite all the ongoing criticism of letting people who identify as a female WCF President Ian Burridge has idiotically doubled down on this policy while making a statement about the recent events at the World Championship.
"The fact that Jamie was assigned male at birth is not disputed by anyone," Burridge said. "Jamie now identifies as female as her entry into the world championships was determined in accordance with our policy, approved by our members in April 2022. We welcome feedback, given the concerns that exist around speaking out in this area."
The epidemic that is trans women competing and dominating women's sports has been ongoing since the COVID-19 Pandemic when biological man Lia Thomas began to dominate women's college swimming after her transition to being a woman following one year as a male on the men's team pre-pandemic.