Rules on Women's sports being rewritten

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There is a report in the Mail which says the rules on women's sports are being rewritten to allow the entry of trans women.

Documents seen by The Mail on Sunday reveal that Sport England has offered up to £25,000 to consultants to rewrite the competition rules for elite-level sport to take account of transgender issues.The project is being overseen by an LGBT activist who has promoted claims that women raising concerns about trans policies are ‘hate groups.' The changes are likely to fuel concerns among sportswomen and feminist campaigners that male-bodied competitors will be allowed to dominate women’s sports

Yes that’s my take too @mcduffy

Oh god yes — Happy Women’s Day, everyone! I saw this story before I remembered the date. Not really ironic, as there‘s a new attack on women’s rights every day.

Every single comment on that article thinks this is madness, so how can the authorities get away with it?

If you are on twitter you may be interested in answering the IWD question Sport England pose about how to get more girls and women involved in sport

mobile.twitter.com/Sport_England/status/1236593250208751617

Comment on the twitter page for sports England

If it turns out as expected (budge over girls, be kind and give your medals to the boys) then I hope they are sued for sex discrimination. I assume this is something the EHRC should be doing?

Judging by what mr hooper is tweeting about on IWD I don’t think there’s a chance in hell of this being approached even vaguely neutrally

But they'd also have to rewrite both the Gender Recognition Act and the Equality Act. They don't have the legal right to do this.

Fuck me, this is making me livid.

Has anyone started a petition on this? It is the type of petition to go absolutely nuts as the unfairness of it all is clearly understandable by everyone, not just those of us in this god awful rabbit hole.

Does the government have any statutory oversight of Sport England? If so a UK Petitions would be worth doing to get this raised in parliament. Otherwise a Change.org one.

They are spectacularly stupid to go ahead with this considering how toxic this issue is - it will end up in court, but god knows how many girls and women's sporting careers will be trashed before that happens.

Why do we need a petition, we have the law on our side?

F119 Sport
(1)A body responsible for regulating the participation of persons as competitors in an event or events involving a gender-affected sport may, if subsection (2) is satisfied, prohibit or restrict the participation as competitors in the event or events of persons whose gender has become the acquired gender under this Act.
(2)This subsection is satisfied if the prohibition or restriction is necessary to secure—
(a)fair competition, or
(b)the safety of competitors,at the event or events.
(3)“Sport” means a sport, game or other activity of a competitive nature.
(4)A sport is a gender-affected sport if the physical strength, stamina or physique of average persons of one gender would put them at a disadvantage to average persons of the other gender as competitors in events involving the sport.

www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/7/section/19

www.citizensadvice.org.uk/consumer/discrimination-in-the-provision-of-goods-and-services/discrimination-in-the-provision-of-goods-and-services1/goods-and-services-what-are-the-different-types-of-discrimination/what-doesn-t-count-as-unlawful-discrimination-in-goods-and-services/sport-when-discrimination-is-allowed-in-the-provision-of-goods-or-services/

Thanks you - I'm glad we have the law on our side, but that doesn't seem to matter much at the moment. How best draw their attention to this fact? A petition with tens of thousands of signatures i thought might focus their attention, but other suggestions most welcome!

Goddammit, the arrogance of this!

So a man who calls feminist orgs "hate groups" will have a senior role in determining women's rights in sports?

They're not even trying to hide it, are they.

Instead, get rid of “men’s sports” so no men’s tennis finals, just tennis finals. No men’s 100m, just 100m. Then anyone can join in men, women, trans people and the best people will get through and win.
Then women’s sports stay just for women🤷‍♀️
No need to get triggered for being in a men’s sport because it’s just sport.

So we have the 100m and the women's 100 m?

That was where we were before and sets men as default and women as other.

Am I allowed to ask why so many white men seem to end up in LGBQ or Equalities roles?

Am I also allowed to ask why LGBQ or Equalities roles seem to be used to control, silence or disadvantage women?

Probably not!

As previously explained, with the male female sex dynamic, men are horribly oppressed by women.

Thus it makes sense for them to head up all diversity type efforts.

As oppressors, women should back off and shut up. Men have a clearer view of what needs doing.

Thanks!

Obvious.

No probs.
Write it down so you don't forget

Frogs - exactly.Make mens sport the 'other' Why should women have to lose out when we tend to be biologically disadvantaged (in height / weight / speed / strength / power)?

For folk that seemingly hate women so much, they are determined to be absolute cunts.

Celebrating the day of women with a big ole fuck you. Nice.