Debbie Hayton on Sport in the Times

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And again comments have been turned off. What the fuck is the Times doing? I appreciate that they publish these articles and comments in the first place but I'd like to know who made the decision to close all comments and why.

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ddb0630e-940a-11ec-9aec-82f0032d4cd3?shareToken=ecfc9e612d9d78462222332babd94681

Our school has open and girls categories and because it’s school (and not professional) there are a smattering of girls in the open group (currently two girls in the junior 1sts tennis, two or three girls in the 1sts soccer, and one in the 1sts rugby - lower down teams also have a few girls). Girls also have their own teams who play against girls schools and then open teams play against mixed and boys schools (mainly boys as that’s the “group” we’re in as we only went Co-Ed a few years ago).
I cannot see a single disadvantage of this way of organising things.

It makes my blood boil that when the media want to discuss women's sport, they ask a man.

Woman's Hour did the same thing. Asked an effing man.

I really like Debbie's writing on this issue.

I'm not sure it matters whether we have open + women's or males + females (making clear that trans women are welcome in the males category). Either way the important thing is that we have a category for females only. This doesn't mean trans people cannot take part.