We have to move faster to ban trans participation to give women a sporting chance
by Lucy Frazer MP, Daily Mail:
For decades, women have been fighting for equality and fairness. Chaining themselves to railings, campaigning on the streets, continually showing their worth by getting on with the job, notwithstanding the prejudices.
Like Yetta, my grandmother, who was the first female barrister in Leicester. She was expected to come into work after-hours so she did not disturb the man supervising her.
Society has come a long way and there are few places where women have won more breakthroughs than in sport.
It is hard to imagine, given its success now, that the FA banned women’s football from its grounds from 1921 until 1971.
The first ever Women’s Rugby World Cup was held in 1991 and described by a reporter at the time as being ‘run on a shoestring, with none of the trappings of the modern men’s game — no big sponsors, no back-up and limited accommodation’.
As any sportswoman will testify, there is still much further to go in the battle for equality. But this struggle is now being made harder because of the debate raging over transgender women competing in women’s sport.
While this is clearly a complex and sensitive subject, no one disputes that men and women are physically different. It follows, as night follows day, that transgender women, who experienced male puberty, are likely to enjoy a host of physical advantages when compared to biological women.
They are often taller and stronger. And we know that testosterone suppression does not mitigate these inbuilt advantages.
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