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NEW REPORT: How trans inclusion in sport is harming women and girls

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Helleofabore · 14/01/2024 16:08

Fairplay for women have released a new report as follows.

For years women and girls have been facing unfair, and sometimes unsafe, sport because of trans inclusion – which means male inclusion in women’s teams, events and changing rooms.

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The scale of the problem, and its effect on women and girls, has been concealed by the fear around this issue. A culture of intimidation and silencing has forced women to keep quiet or walk away. This is not inclusion, it’s female exclusion.

Fair Play For Women has heard personal reports from across 35 sports in the UK. From these, we have compiled around 50 personal testimonies representing 25 sports. We have protected their identities because they are worried about reprisals in their sport, or about the possible impact on relationships or on their jobs. Given that women have lost their jobs for expressing opinions about this, they are probably right to be cautious.

Our report gives them a voice. This, the first ever report on the impact of trans inclusion in the UK, shows a widespread problem, affecting many women and girls all over the country, at all levels, from juniors to masters and at all levels of competition and participation. Women and girls are being put at risk and their legitimate concerns disregarded. Their stories debunk the claims that this is a small problem, affecting only a few, and that it does no harm. They include big sports like football, athletics, swimming and cycling, and contact sports like judo, American football, ice hockey and roller-derby.

https://fairplayforwomen.com/new-report-how-trans-inclusion-in-sport-is-harming-women-and-girls/

Thank you FPFW! I am looking forward to reading this today.

trans inclusion in sport first report evidence of harm | Fair Play For Women

Trans inclusion in sport. A new report shows how trans inclusion is harming women and girls in Uk sport. It's the first ever to compile evidence

https://fairplayforwomen.com/new-report-how-trans-inclusion-in-sport-is-harming-women-and-girls/

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HagoftheNorth · 14/01/2024 21:51

Defending elite sport doesn’t work if there is no pathway to get there.

Further, if girls & women who won’t ever be elite athletes leave their sports, who will become the coaches/referees/administrators in the future?

duc748 · 14/01/2024 21:38

Great report, really nails it. Thinking about Seb Coe, and how he'll defend 'elite sport', whilst throwing the rest of women and girls under the bus.

Truthlikeness · 14/01/2024 21:32

Helleofabore · 14/01/2024 21:15

It really is clear how far the impacts go. And just how little we really hear about it in the media.

The newspapers want to publicise this story, but it's so hard to get anyone to go on the record.

fisky · 14/01/2024 21:18

Good report. All we need is for Toby Jones to make an ITV drama about it so it can get some attention Angry

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Helleofabore · 14/01/2024 21:15

It really is clear how far the impacts go. And just how little we really hear about it in the media.

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HagoftheNorth · 14/01/2024 20:17

“Is there a more effective way of destroying women’s sport than allowing men to identify as women?”

Quite - and it’s clearly affecting every age group and (almost) every sport. My friend’s daughter was a competitive swimmer - the early morning/late evening training 4 times every week or more sort of swimmer. She’d already dedicated years of her life to this and was on track to be extremely successful. She gave up in her early teens after one encounter with a transgirl. She knew immediately that, however hard she trained, she could never compete.

edited to add Once these girls drop out, they don’t go back. We are losing so many talented athletes who should be joining the elite ranks in the next several years

UtopiaPlanitia · 14/01/2024 19:15

This report makes for sobering reading indeed. It also destroys the argument that 'it’s only a limited number of men competing in women’s events so it doesn’t have a huge impact', this report shows that the effect is widespread and affects all levels of women’s sport.

I’m astonished and enraged that it’s got to this stage with Sporting bodies and associations around the world betraying women in favour of validating men.

Women obviously don’t matter in the view of their sports’ authorities.

MrsOvertonsWindow · 14/01/2024 18:33

What a good report. And (for a change) centring the voices of women in sport instead of the male interlopers or their Stonewall trained advocates wedged into the IOC, Sport England and governing bodies everywhere.

Well done FPFW.

Froodwithatowel · 14/01/2024 17:32

Bravo FPFW!!! (Yet again Flowers)

fabricstash · 14/01/2024 17:17

It is a good report and echos what I am hearing from friends whose children do grass roots sports. It's the intimidation and that you can't say things out loud

Truthlikeness · 14/01/2024 16:51

I just came to post this - you beat me to it :-). It's an excellent report with lots of real examples of this policy harming women and women's sports. I've personally experienced much of what the women talk about in this report - it made me despondent and angry in equal measure.

It's important that they've also focussed on the suppression of any kind of debate or disagreement with the policy. It's adding insult to injury that not only are you expected to endure unfairness, risk of injury and lack of dignity, you cannot even name it or raise any objection.

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