As alarming report reveals women and girls are quitting sports over fears they will be injured… It is revealed a 16st trans woman dislocated the shoulder of a female judo rival
- Sharron Davies said: ‘Discriminatory policies are keeping young girls from sport’
- A report shows that girls as young as 12 were forced to share changing rooms with biological males
Women and girls across the country are quitting sports after being injured and intimidated by transgender competitors, a worrying report has found.
Testimonies from 25 different disciplines describe how girls as young as 12 were forced to share locker rooms with biological adult males who say they identify as women.
The 28-page report reveals how some women and girls suffered dislocations and even broken bones as they were forced to compete against much heavier and muscular transgender athletes.
Olympic medalist Sharron Davies claims ‘discriminatory policies’ are keeping young people, girls and women away from sport
Tory MP Nick Fletcher said: ‘The bullying, unfairness and physical risk imposed on women and girls in this country as sports clubs and organizations are bullied or misled by trans activists and lobby groups should shame us all.’
Accounts in the dossier, released by campaign group Fair Play For Women, include:
- A 6-foot-2, 16th trans woman who broke one woman’s finger and dislocated another woman’s shoulder during a judo tournament
- Female rugby players are forced to share an open shower with a male teammate who identifies as female
- An athlete who received death threats because he was concerned about competing with transgender women
- A 13-year-old girl who lost her place as goalkeeper on a girls’ soccer team to a boy who identified as a girl
- A college rower who says she was forced to share locker rooms with a transgender woman, while another teammate was asked to share overnight accommodation with them
- A 15-year-old soccer player said she had to give up the sport because it was ‘too risky’ to play against teams with a male goalkeeper
A world medalist in judo said she quit overnight after watching the 6ft biological male break one woman’s finger and dislocate another’s shoulder during a training session.
Her mother recounted her horror when the manly-bodied athlete “threw my daughter across the mat like a terrier with a rat in its mouth.”
And a female footballer told Fair Play For Women she feels ‘scared and isolated’ sharing a dressing room with a trans woman after being sexually assaulted by a man.
She said: ‘I can’t bear to go to a club where there’s a chance I could undress and meet a man in the changing room.
‘I’m also afraid of being tackled by a man. This whole prospect makes me sick.”
Another testimony claims that a trans woman over 60 was repeatedly allowed to walk through the changing rooms while 12-year-old girls put on swimsuits.
Olympic medalist Sharron Davies said: ‘These discriminatory policies are keeping young girls and women away from sport. This report shows that it is already a major problem and will only get worse if nothing is done.”
Last year, UK Athletics announced a ban on transgender women competing in the female category in all its events. But some organizers still allow trans athletes to compete against women.
Runner Amanda Martin said she was robbed of two first-place medals by a transgender woman who was allowed to race against her.
The 56-year-old from Gloucester said: ‘There’s no way I’m going to beat a biological male. It’s so frustrating. I figured if the rule was going to change, that would be it. But they don’t follow the rules.
‘I emailed the organisers, UK Athletics and England Athletics, and she was eventually removed from the results. About six weeks later I did receive a prize in the mail.’
Governing body Swim England announced last year that female swimmers would not have to compete against transgender competitors. British Cycling also banned trans women from women’s events.
Trans cyclist Emily Bridges branded the decision a ‘genocide against us’ and compared cycling leaders to the Nazis.
A world medalist in judo said she quit overnight after watching the 6ft tall biological male break a woman’s finger
And transgender rugby player Julie-Anne Curtiss vowed last year to overturn new safety laws that ban players born male from the female-only sport.
Last night, Fair Play For Women called on sports governing bodies to better protect women at all levels of sports.
Fiona McAnena, the group’s sporting director, said: ‘This report shows how every man in a women’s event or team influences many women. We believe that women and girls should not have to house men at any level.”
Tory MP Nick Fletcher said: ‘The bullying, unfairness and physical risk imposed on women and girls in this country as sports clubs and organizations are bullied or misled by trans activists and lobby groups should shame us all.’
Last month, long-awaited government guidance said schools must ensure competitive sport is fair. This ‘almost always’ means separate sports for boys and girls – especially in the older age groups.