Anyone who’s ever had a military medical knows perfectly well what it means to have to drop your pants and cough in front of a doctor. But that’s all too humiliating for Women’s World Cup soccer players, apparently.
Swedish women’s football players were forced to prove their sexuality by showing their genitalia at the 2011 Women’s World Cup.
Former Sweden defender Nilla Fischer has made the revelation in her book I Didn’t Say Half Of It and has called the process ‘humiliating’.
They should be grateful they didn’t have to have a doctor grab their balls and tell them to cough.
As it happens, the possibility that some of them might have had balls for the doctor to grab was the reason for the whole procedure.
Fischer, who played 194 games for Sweden between 2001 and 2022, said the tests were as a result of protests by the Nigerian, South African and Ghanaian teams over rumours there were three men in the Equatorial Guinea squad.
“We were told that we should not shave ‘down there’ in the coming days and that we will show our genitalia for the doctor,” Fischer wrote in her book.
“No one understands the thing about shaving but we do as we are told and think ‘how did it get to this?’ Why are we forced to do this now, there has to be other ways to do this. Should we refuse?
“At the same time no one wants to jeopardise the opportunity to play at a World Cup. We just have to get the shit done no matter how sick and humiliating it feels.”
Oh, cry me a river, Princess.
The examinations, which took place at the Fifa Women’s World Cup in Germany in 2011, were conducted by a female physiotherapist. In an interview for Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, Fischer went into more detail.
“I understand what I have to do and quickly pull down my training pants and underwear at the same time,” Fischer said.
“The physio nods and says ‘yup’ and then looks out at the doctor who is standing with his back to my doorway. He makes a note and moves on in the corridor to knock on the next door.
So, woman physio, male doctor discreetly with his back turned, quick look down their undies, next. Where’s the problem?
The problem, as it so often is in women’s sports now, is men in dresses who were kind of shit at men’s sports, putting on a bit of lippy so they can get to smash the girls in women’s sports.
Just prior to the World Cup in Germany, all teams were requested to sign declarations, confirming that all players were “of an appropriate gender”. Those rules state that: “It lies with each participating member association to … ensure the correct gender of all players by actively investigating any perceived deviation in secondary sex characteristic.”
Although DNA tests could have been done to confirm all the players in the Swedish squad were women, the decision was made to check the genitalia of all the players.
DNA testing is expensive and time-consuming. A quick ogle of the goolies tells us what everyone knew, when the world was a saner place: if it’s got a dick, it’s not a chick.
Unfortunately, the world is not a sane place, right now.
Mats Borjesson, who was the team doctor for Sweden’s team in 2011, said he understood why there were concerns at the time.
“Fifa doesn’t do this to be mean to anyone,” Borjesson said. “The sports world has tried to create fairness for girls so that they don’t train their whole lives and then someone comes in with an unreasonable advantage.”
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Back even in 2011, the world was a sane enough place that everyone knew that letting men play as “women” is inherently unfair.
Then the demented autogynephiles showed up, screaming, “It’s Ma’am!”