Parkrun and nine sports bodies have been threatened with legal action by Sharron Davies over their refusal to ban those born male from their female categories.
The Football Association of Wales, Irish Football Association, Swim England, British Gymnastics and Royal Yachting Association (RYA) have also been targeted a year after the Supreme Court ruling that only those born female should be considered women under the Equality Act 2010.
Only women are women; men cannot be women; stop letting men invade women’s sports. It’s not that much to ask.
Baroness Davies and Tracy Edwards MBE have co-signed letters from the Women’s Sport Union and legal advocacy organisation ADF International to each of the sports bodies.
Seen by Telegraph Sport, the letters warn legal action will follow if the bodies continue to refuse to join the likes of the Football Association, Scottish FA, Rugby Football Union and England and Wales Cricket Board in protecting their female categories.
“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. This exposes the organisation to immediate and substantial legal liability,” the letters state.
But it’s worth it for the sake of ruining things for women, right?
Last week, Bridget Phillipson, the Education Secretary, said EHRC guidance on protecting women’s spaces would not be published until after Scottish and Welsh elections on May 7, despite the fact that the draft guidance was submitted for review last September.
The delay was criticised by Baroness Falkner, former head of the EHRC, and Reem Alsalem, the UN’s special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, who said the guidance should be published “without further delay”.
Aka without further obstinate pig-headed determined contempt for women and gross favoritism for men who call themselves women.
Edwards was the world-renowned sailor who skippered Maiden, the first all-female-crewed boat to sail around the world. She said: “When I stood outside the Supreme Court on 16 April 2025 as For Women Scotland won their case, I celebrated the return of sanity. Little did I know that a year later we would still be fighting for the female category in sport, and that over 30 UK sports governing bodies would be shirking their responsibility to women and girls.
“Sharron and I set up the union to ‘support, protect and grow female participation in sport’ but we knew that getting males out of the female category would be job number one. I have written to the RYA on a number of occasions and the disappointment I feel in their reluctance to protect women and girls is profound. I have spent my sailing career promoting and facilitating women and girls into sailing and yet the misogyny 37 years after ‘Maiden’ hasn’t gone away, it has just changed shape.”
It’s true and it’s unbelievably depressing.
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