Sharron Davies made Tory peer after campaign to ban trans athletes from women’s sport
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/12/10/sharron-davies-tory-peer-campaign-trans-peerage/
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Sharron Davies made Tory peer after campaign to ban trans athletes from women’s sport
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/12/10/sharron-davies-tory-peer-campaign-trans-peerage/
Posted by Sensitive_Echo5058
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It’s not a ban, it’s just competing in the correct category.
Her views about trans women competing in women’s sport are shared by more sportswomen than people on here would like to believe.
..source – family members who play/have played elite-level women’s sport.
No editorising there. None at all. Or did The Telegraph change the title?
If not, surely that violates Rule 2?
The irony here being that if this year’s BBC SPOTY award goes to Chloe Kelly, Telegraph readers will be among the first to declare that nobody cares about women’s football
Davies has every right to her opinion and I don’t know what her options on trans people is beyond sports. But for many on the right, on the trans ‘debate’, sports get used by political grifters all the time (getting their talking points from American christian nationalist that over the last few years has been seeping into Britain via social media).
But it really shouldn’t be a political issue. It could be argued it’s up to the sporting body/organisation of each sport to decide. F1 and horse racing allow mix genders.
It could also be argued that, if what really matters is things like testosterone, such as Caster Semenya who was assigned female at birth but is banned by the Olympic body for having too much testosterone, then split the sports into classes like boxing. Humans who have X amount of testosterone can compete in one division and humans with Y amount compete in another division.
The sports debate is where trans campaigners come across completely unreasonably.
Fully support their right to day-to-day life, use their bathrooms of choice etc, but I’d say being able to play women’s sports isn’t a matter of dignity the same way as other rights would be. My personal opinion is that male sports should be reclassified as “open” so if even the absolute best women athletes wanted to try their luck at the (generally) more lucrative version of their sport than they could.
I’d quite fancy the glory of being a Paralympic champion, but as I’m able bodied I’d have an unfair biological advantage. I’m not complaining.
Well done! All problems in the UK are solved now.
What is the next on the list to distract the masses?
Can we not just have separate trans events? Seems like the simplest fix? Theres specific events for race, religion, disability….in some sports theres height and weight classes…theres an army olympics ffs.
I don’t understand why this is such a sticking point for everyone involved.
Trans people should be allowed to be whoever they are. But we shouldn’t allow obvious biological advantages that cannot be changed depending on transition age to compromise womens sports. Feels like having two new categories fixes that. Men/women/t men/t women.
Unless theres a fairer compromise for everyone involved.
One of those horrible arguments where both sides are entrenched and both have a valid point to make.
It should read sharron davis made Tory peer for returning women to a 1950’s view of women. Don’t try and match up time little ladies. Your delicate bodies can’t cope.