The Women's Sports Union legal action - 9 sports including parkrun

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https://x.com/wsusportsunion/status/2047253410898968755?s=20

BREAKING: The Women’s Sports Union have formally warned 9 sporting bodies and parkrun that they are in breach of law by failing to protect women’s and girls’ sport from transgender ideology.

While many governing bodies changed their policies to protect women’s sport following the landmark ForWomenScot Supreme Court ruling last year, the sports bodies threatened with legal action today still allow males to compete in female categories.

Biological sex is the essential foundation for safeguarding women and girls and preserving fair competition. Any governing body that continues to permit biological males to compete in the female category contravenes the Equality Act 2010 as interpreted by the Supreme Court.

The ball is in their court. Sporting bodies can act now to comply with the law and protect women’s sport, or face legal action.
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Here is an article in the Telegraph

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/2026/04/23/sharron-davies-threatens-parkrun-with-legal-action-trans/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_tw_post_parkrun-with-legal-action-trans/

I will post an archive link when I can get access to archive.is.

This has made my day. It will serve parkrun right if they waste money on a legal fight and lose. Although they'll probably have to spend money either way.
Sexist idiots had this coming but they were too bigoted to accept it.

pretty we've asked parkrun to remove cheating Jeska from the women's categories and they even refuse to do that. It's disgusting.

I wasn’t aware that they had been asked and had refused. That is a significant indicator that management is really adhering to an ideological position.

And now Sharron Davis is being threatened by the disgraced ex policeman.

Watson's always been mental, but it looks to me he's escalating, are the Police waiting for a dead body before they act or what. 🤯

Very pleased to see this. Sharron and Tracy Edwards are brilliant.

I see the usual suspects are displaying to the world just how dangerous they are to women.

The narcissistic rage on show there!

What is even worse is that I believe he is serving his sentence is a women’s prison.

This Thread might be interesting reading for some background too.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5442566-save-womens-sports-parkrunuk-youtube-video-november-2025?page=1

Do you have a source / link I can take a gander at?

https://x.com/millihill/status/1756242055993397443?s=46

I am not sure if anyone has been able to confirm he is still in Foston Hall and not moved. I believe it was where he was sent.

No garden, I think, but anyone wishing to support might look for a donate button on their website.

A tweet about parkrun from women’s sports union.

https://x.com/wsusportsunion/status/2047591363596685629?s=46

Why we have written to parkrun.

1 Parkrun should be for all to enjoy, including trans-identifying individuals. If parkrun wants to categorise run times, it should do so by sex. Only biological females should be in the 'women's' rankings. It's very simple. #TheLawIsTheLaw

2 Males as a sex class run on average (at elite level) 10-12% faster than females. At non-elite level this gap is much greater.

In the UK, men have finished 1st in the Female category more than 280 times, holding over 20 female records.

3 If it's not a race parkrun, why do you measure times and celebrate course records? A woman's course record should not be held by a biological man. #XX

4 FWS Supreme Court Judgment was clear. Where something is provided for men and women respectively, that must be based on biological sex.

parkrun has a legal responsibility to comply with the Equality Act 2010. We are asking them to comply.

5 Everyone knows what sex they are. Being trans-identified does not mean you can forget or erase one of the few fundamentals of your being - your biological sex. #SexMatters

6 parkrun received £3million in public money between 2018-2021 in part to "increase female participation". How can it know if this is good use of public money when it does not collect reliable sex data?

The Women’s Sports Union was set up to support, protect and grow women’s participation in sport. This involves protecting the female category, without fear or favour.

All of you casually ignoring that this is being done with the assistance of ADF International. ADF who were largely responsible for Roe v Wade being overturned. Who vehemently oppose to gay and lesbian rights and whose idea of feminism is that the woman should be at home functioning as a babyfactory and having no ambitions outside of marriage and taking care of the husband. You're all quite the collection of feminists.

All of you casually ignoring that this is being done with the assistance of ADF International.

What is it exactly that is 'being done' here? Complaining to sports' governing bodies and politicians that they are not following the law? Is this a bad thing, do you think? It's really not all about the ADF, whatever your views.

Dame Sharron Davies, the epitome of a woman with no ambitions outside of marriage.

This is great news, go Sharron and Tracy! Hopefully the threat of legal action will be enough to make these organisations back down. At least they can say ‘sorry lads, we tried but it’s the law innit’.

And I hope the threats against Sharron are taken seriously 😟

And Tracy Edwards. I mean, what has she ever done?

/sarcasm

Apparently, in 1989 she skippered the first all-female crew in the Whitbread Round the World yacht race, becoming the first woman to receive the Yachtsman of the Year Trophy and was appointed MBE.

I mean, nothing of note, right?

Scaremongering.

Also name changing or first post just to call people crazy.

Always interesting to see which posters are in favour of removing women from women's sport for ..... unspecified reasons. 😂

Tracy Edwards was my absolute hero as a teen. It was amazingly inspiring to watch what she and her crew achieved! And now I find out that she’s involved in this too- an awesome woman!

As well as Sharon and Tracy who are both amazing, I was very pleased to see that Judy Murray is on the advisory board.