Ban trans women from female sports, urges culture secretary
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/d92ebb21-9dbc-409d-a2d4-05936951f29d?shareToken=6df6d8e6e69510fce989597f5a2f4604
Following Victoria Atkins' barnstormer in Parliment yesterday, Lucy Frazer has come out categorically. It seems like the curtain is now fully pulled back!
One day in the future I think that women will look back with absolutely bafflement at how men were allowed to compete against women, just because they said they were also female. I think (hope) it will be seen as regressive and barking mad as the suffragettes having to fight for the right to vote. I just hope that any Labour government doesn't quietly start to row back.
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Culture Secretary: Ban trans women from female sports
TotteringonGently · 16/04/2024 13:43
Ban trans women from female sports, urges culture secretary
Lucy Frazer said that sports such as football and cricket were not going ‘far or fast enough’ in their transgender policies
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/d92ebb21-9dbc-409d-a2d4-05936951f29d?shareToken=6df6d8e6e69510fce989597f5a2f4604
Snowypeaks · 16/04/2024 13:56
Strong words, but she should do as Sharron Davies says and threaten to cut off their funding. Local authorities force women-only services to open up to men all the time by making grants conditional on including men.
theilltemperedclavecinist · 16/04/2024 14:35
I suspect that sports organisers, and the public institutions that subsidise them, believe that trans-inclusive sport is necessary, to avoid discrimination on the grounds of gender reassignment.
What could put paid to this would be even just one declaratory judgment, that a lack of women-only sport is illegal sex discrimination, because the women are disadvantaged relative to the men (whose participation in sport is much less adversely affected by the inclusion of transmen).
It would need lots of highly technical evidence, all of which would shine lovely sunlight everywhere.
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