Nearly entire staff of women's team resigns after allegations of transphobia made against new President Digit Murphy

According to multiple online reports, a majority of the Metropolitan Riveters' staff have resigned following the hiring of new President Digit Murphy. Riveters GM Anya Packer has reportedly resigned, as have members of the team's PR staff and their entire statistics staff.

The reason for leaving, again according to online reports, is Murphy's connection with Women’s Sports Policy Working Group (WSPWG) an organization that many see as problematic due to its policies regarding transgender women in sports.

The WSPWG is comprised mostly of prominent former female atheletes and has a mandate to change the way in which transgender girls and women (males who have transitioned to or who identify as females) compete in women's sports. Specifically, the group is believes that with transgender women competing in the women's sport it creates an unfair playing field for cisgendered females. The group maintains that there's a distinct "disadvantage to biological females by forcing them to compete against athletes with male sex-linked physical advantages.”

Maybe I'm completely out to lunch as a cisgendered male who has never even met a transgendered person before but... I have no problem with WSPWG's perspective. If nothing else, we should recognize that this is a tricky subject to address and that both sides of the argument should be considered with some sober thought. To say that male to female transgender females don't have a physical advantage on cisgendered females is just patently, biologically false. And, at the same time, to say that transgendered females aren't females themselves is also false. Again... it's a tricky subject to address.

Honestly, I don't know the proper way to address things and to come to a fair solution. I'm not sure there will EVER be a solution that's fair in the hearts and minds of everyone. I DO know though, that it's a subject worth hearing both sides on, rather than burying your head in the sand.

Unfortunately for the Riveters staff it seems that they're not interested in having the conversation and simply by having Murphy on staff it's too much for them to stomach. I look forward to a day when we have more clarity on situations like these in our sport and, frankly, in all sports for that matter.