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The news that swimming’s governing body has voted to ban anyone who has undergone male puberty from competing in elite women’s events is a huge breakthrough.
It comes after years of growing frustration and humiliation for female athletes who could never hope to match the sheer physical prowess of the increasing numbers of male-bodied opponents competing alongside them.
Since the announcement, several other sports governing bodies have intimated that they will follow suit. But this is more than just a victory for women’s sport, it’s a victory for women everywhere.
In fact, I would go so far as to say that it’s almost on a par with women finally winning the vote in 1928. Back then, women had to fight to be heard, to have our basic rights taken seriously. We never imagined we’d have to do it all over again — yet that’s exactly what has happened.
Women who feel uncomfortable with allowing male-bodied trans women into every intimate aspect of their lives are branded bigots. Women who want to celebrate the achievements of their sex are classed as transphobes.
The irony of groups such as Stonewall and others pursuing what in my view amounts to the bullying of an entire gender into submission while claiming to be fighting discrimination would be laughable, were it not so scary. But it’s deadly serious.
Because while things may be looking up in women’s sport, on the streets and on social media, the mood against women who dare to assert their identities has never been uglier.
Last weekend in Bristol, a group of feminists attending a talk on Father’s Day were abused and attacked by masked men wearing black and screaming insults.
The derogatory term often fired at such women is TERF — which stands for trans-exclusionary radical feminist — and the Bristol protest was no exception.
Former Olympic athlete Sharron Davies speaks about the importance of maintaining femalee sporting categories in Edinburgh last week
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/...INE-Swimming-seen-sense-war-women-raging.html
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