Second-rate male athletes are “self-identifying their way onto women’s podiums” and ruining grassroots sport, former Olympian Sharron Davies MBE has said. In her foreward to a report by Policy Exchange on the toll trans ideology is taking on women’s sport, Davies urged policymakers in the UK to bar biological males from female amateur competitions. Lottie Moore’s report, Levelling the Playing Field: Why Women and Girls Matter in Amateur Sport, details how gender self-ID policies are undermining “the integrity of women’s sport”, especially at grassroots level. For too long, those responsible for setting policy within sports have prioritised transgender inclusion over the rights of female athletes. ‘Funding withdrawn’Through her investigation and subsequent analysis, Moore challenges the notion that “protecting the female category only matters within elite or professional sport”.

Source: The Times January 17, 2024 13:00 UTC