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Elena King describes the moment her knee was violently dislocated during a women’s rugby match — by a male opponent allowed under current “inclusion” policies.

Elena King, 20, a female rugby player was left screaming in agony after being tackled by a male player appropriating womanhood.

Ashley Mooney insists he is a woman and has been allowed to play in the women’s division in the Netherlands. His tackle left Elena with a torn ACL and MCL. She will most likely suffer lifelong consequences and pain.

Now, Elena is speaking out against the policy that allowed the male to play in the women’s competition:

‘I felt the strength being used against me: it’s nothing that I can explain because I don’t have that strength myself,’ King told The Times. 

‘A cis woman could not have pulled my leg out of its socket… I heard a really loud pop. That’s when I started screaming. My leg was on fire.

‘I do not want it to ever happen to anyone again because I don’t want it to happen to me. It could have been prevented.’

In a blog post, King describes how she had already been nervous about facing her opponent after Mooney allegedly caused a black eye, rib, and spine injuries, with ‘one of my lovely teammates coming off the pitch crying’.

Elena went into great detail about her recollection of events:

‘The transplayer came in from the left side and my knee doesn’t bend that way. So the transplayer pushed her shoulder into my knee and with immense strength pulled her arms closer to herself,’ King writes in her heart-breaking blog.

‘I then heard a massive popping sound. I screamed my lungs out. The transplayer had pulled my pretty little knee out of its socket and broke my MCL and ACL in one single movement.

‘Later I heard that teammates on the pitch had to walk away with their hands over their ears because my screams sounded too painful.’

King had to be carried off by her team-mates because the opposing club did not provide a stretcher.

She adds: ‘I knew it was serious, I didn’t feel connected to my knee at all, later I would find out my nerves were dead because the ligaments were completely torn apart. I understood that yesterday was way too far away and tomorrow would not look the same.

‘All of the sudden I felt very alone in my own body, my knee didn’t feel like it was part of me anymore. My lower leg felt like a dead weight hanging and pulling my knee further apart.’

‘I kept going back to that moment where I felt the male strength of this transplayer. It is something that still goes through my head. It was a type of strength that I only partly ever felt while playing with the older boys in my youth. The kind of strength that women can’t match. Women do not possess that strength.

‘I cannot make peace with something that felt like an attack on my body. I can’t make peace with knowing that if the Dutch Rugby Association had protected my safety by not allowing transgenders into the women’s competition, I would not have my pretty little knee pulled out of its socket.

‘I can’t understand how the Dutch Rugby Association can allow biological men to play in women’s rugby; a contact sport where injuries are more likely to happen.’

Elena King is Not Alone

Similar to Australian football associations, the Dutch Rugby Association made the female player feel at fault, and threatened if she spoke out.

They prefer to protect and promote males in the game at the expense of females.

Elena stated it is not about transphobia, but rather fairness and safety. Males can still play in their biological category or create their own division.

Meanwhile in the UK, Cerys Vaughan has had a case of “transphobia” against her dropped. Last year she asked a male player in her female division, “are you a man.” She was suspended and charged for breaching the FA Code of Conduct, Improper Conduct and for Improper Conduct aggravated by Gender Reassignment.

Vaughan has appealed the decision and the case has been dropped. Now 18, the female player has spoken out:

‘It was stressful. It’s definitely impacted my normal life a lot.

‘In the end it was pointless, and there was no reason for the FA to put me through all this.

‘They said I wasn’t guilty anymore and they dropped my charges and cleared my record.’

The player had a beard and looked obviously male.

It is incredible that these sporting associations go to such great lengths to protect the fragile feelings of males who wish they were women, while throwing women under the bus who are concerned about fairness, safety and dignity.

In Australia, calling out these males leads to court cases, accusations of violence for speaking the truth, and vilification.

Most players, parents and coaches don’t want to pay the price of speaking the truth for fear of losing their jobs and being ostracised for defending biological reality.

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Republished with thanks to Binary Australia. Originally titled ‘Female footballers share harrowing accounts of injury and humiliation’. Image courtesy of Unsplash.