It’s not unusual that a rule might stand against the spirit in which it was originally made. Happens all the time actually. It just needs someone sensible to step in and say “implementation like this would be against the spirit of the game and the rule”. Although then next time some all male team will object and say that the rule should be bent for them as well, and then turn it into some sort of discrimination court case. Then those who bent the rules are pushed forward by the organisation to justify their own actions and the organisation falls back on saying “that wasn’t according to our rules”.
People in these comments are clearly annoyed… But if you ever end up in a position of making and enforcing rules you’ll realise that bullshit like this happens all the time and even if you try to do the right thing then it can blow up in your face. Even if they change the original rule, what is it supposed to say? “All woman teams can be allowed, but no all male teams will be allowed”?
It’s not unusual that a rule might stand against the spirit in which it was originally made. Happens all the time actually. It just needs someone sensible to step in and say “implementation like this would be against the spirit of the game and the rule”. Although then next time some all male team will object and say that the rule should be bent for them as well, and then turn it into some sort of discrimination court case. Then those who bent the rules are pushed forward by the organisation to justify their own actions and the organisation falls back on saying “that wasn’t according to our rules”.
People in these comments are clearly annoyed… But if you ever end up in a position of making and enforcing rules you’ll realise that bullshit like this happens all the time and even if you try to do the right thing then it can blow up in your face. Even if they change the original rule, what is it supposed to say? “All woman teams can be allowed, but no all male teams will be allowed”?