I also just read that Cambridge have started to apply pressure to their sports teams to ensure they follow the latest UK sporting organisational policies.
here is Cambridge Rowing:
https://x.com/WomensRightsNet/status/1982758253697073587
BREAKING: Word reaches us that Cambridge_Uni has ordered its sports clubs to comply with national sports governing body rules that protect the female category.
In September, we highlighted the grossly unfair rules that allowed male rowers to compete in university college boat crews – in breach of the Equality Act 2010. In one egregious example, a town boat club affiliated to BritishRowing
allowed student clubs to include males in their female boats – against British Rowing rules.
We understand that sports clubs were told in no uncertain terms that if they continued to flout the law the university could dissolve the club and would not stand by any officers of clubs that might be on the receiving end of legal action. Last week, at an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Cambridge University College Boat Clubs there was a vote on whether to comply with the law.
According to one report: ‘They were informed by the University that there was a credible threat that they would be sued by well-funded pressure groups if they didn’t acquiesce to BR guidelines, and the university made clear they would not protect them legally.’
The vote to comply with the law and British Rowing rules was passed. Cue much outrage in the boat clubs along the Cam.
‘Anger is very much justified here,’ says one post on the Rowbridge Reborn FB group. ‘But I think the anger should be directed at the loathsome bigots – who, over the summer, began to dox transgender athletes at Cambridge with their photos and full details on their “women’s rights” forums.’
Here at Loathsome Bigot HQ we’d like to remind all sports clubs that flouting the law does have consequences. Female student rowers have lost on places in university college crews, and even places in the Boat Race squad, for over a decade. The grown-ups have finally stepped in. The law is there to protect women and girls. And that is why we do what we do.
Over at The Other Place, Uniofoxford college boat clubs still have rules written in 2019 that allow males to self-identify into women’s boats. Perhaps it’s time for Oxford University to follow Cambridge and lay down the law?