Posted on 06/30/2022 5:32:24 AM PDT by RandFan
Nadine Dorries has said she expects sporting bodies to reserve competitive women's sport "for people born of the female sex" after holding a meeting with a number of governing bodies.
The culture secretary, whose department also covers sport, said on Twitter that "asking women and teenage girls to compete against someone who was biologically born a male is inherently unfair".
It is the latest intervention in the debate over transgender rights in sport and follows the decision by FINA, the international swimming federation, to ban trans athletes from elite women's competitions.
FINA's decision sparked outrage from the likes of Tom Daley, the British gold-medal wining diver.
But in an article for the Mail on Sunday at the weekend, Ms Dorries urged other sporting bodies to follow FINA's example.
The newspaper reported that Ms Dorries was to meet Sport England, which promotes the take-up of sport and physical activity across the country, as well as organisations representing football, cricket, rugby, tennis, athletics this week.
"We can't pretend that sex doesn't have a direct impact on a person's athletic performance," she said.
"Today I have made my position absolutely clear: I expect sporting bodies to follow the policy that competitive women's sport must be reserved for people born of the female sex."
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He’s fired.
Doesn't he know that it's fashionable to be woke? And that reality has nothing to do with it?
In fact, here in the decadent phase of Western Civilization, everybody who's anybody has utter contempt for truth and fully embraces the fashionable delusions du jour.
ALL the celebrities do it! All the TV journalists! Certainly all the fashionable woke politicians!
Screw TRUTH! Screw reality! It's DELUSION that's fashionable--that's groupthink--that's with-it!
He spoke the truth!
HE MUST BE CANCELLED!!!!!.........................
Maybe these were never women’s sports, if men win at them.
I thought the Olympic sports were originally designed around men, for instance. Many were martial, in nature.
No Cheaters allow
How did someone like this get into government, and how long will she last?
Ms Dorries breath of fresh air but woke poice comming for her.
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