Huh. Well, alright. I did specify "a woman in the sport", as in, rugby specifically. And in that sport, I can't find any examples of women over like 190lbs. That being said, I haven't looked very far either.
And yeah, I do think a woman with that sort of physique would be allowed.
Just for the record, AFL / AFLW is Australian Rules Football, a completely different sport to Rugby. A typical AFL player is smaller than a Rugby player.
The largest Rugby (Union) Men's player, as of the 2015 World Cup,
198cm tall and weighs 145kg, the biggest AFL Men's player is
211cm but "only" weighs 118kg. .
The average men's AFL player (this is from 2009, but wouldn't have changed drastically) is actually only
188cm and 87kg.
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AFLW only started as a competition this year (there has been women's Aussie Rules state league competitions for years but this is the first year of the highest level), and as far as I can tell the AFL doesn't keep an official record of the player's weights, but does keep heights, and, for example, the team who won the first year's competition, the Adelaide Crows,
Don't have 1 player taller than the 'average' height in the Men's league. A quick scan through
every team's list shows maybe a half dozen players max who are over that 188cm Men's average height. Some are as much as 30cm shorter than that.
You can, by simply watching the sport, clearly see the AFLW players are much smaller, height and weight wise, then their men's counterparts. I managed to find the weight of
Daisy Pearce, who is regarded as the best Women's Aussie Rules player there is, and she weighs 70kg. Now, the position she players isn't one for the largest player in the team, but again, we are talking 18kg smaller than the average men's player.
Hannah, is about bang on that average men's height, but weighs significantly more. Her weight would be on the larger scale even in the men's league, putting her in the same sort of weight as key forwards such as
Lance Franklin, who weighs 106kg, but is 11cm taller. So even in the men's league she would be a extremely solidly built / heavy player, and well above average for weight when compared to height.
In the women's competition she would be well and truly bigger than anyone else.
The AFL have made the right decision for the fairness of the competition / to the other players here. It sucks for Hannah, but its far from Transphobia.