The Government ordered sport officials yesterday to forbid transgender athletes from competing against female athletes.
Nadine Dorries, the culture secretary, said at a conference of governing organizations that pitting women and teenage girls against biological men was “inherently unfair.”
The BBC, however, rejected pro-trans activists who want Sharron Davies fired from her role as a presenter for the Commonwealth Games this summer.
A prominent effort to restrict transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports has been spearheaded by the former Olympic swimmer.
Fairness must come before inclusivity in elite sport, Mrs. Dorries said officials from the football, cricket, and athletics sports. She did, however, support the introduction of new “open categories” that would let transgender women compete in sports alongside men.
The regulating bodies informed her that they were conducting their own independent scientific studies on the effects of gender and sex reassignment on performance.
“Sport is for everyone, no matter where you’ve come from in life,” said Mrs. Dorries following the meeting. “The Government has the utmost compassion for people born into a body they don’t recognize.”
However, we cannot pretend that a person’s sexual orientation has no bearing on their ability to perform athletically.
For her campaign to ban transgender athletes from women’s sport, Miss Davies, who has worked for the BBC for more than 25 years, has recently been the target of vitriol, including death threats, from online trolls.
Activists have urged the BBC to terminate her, but the organization has chosen to stand by her instead. For the opening-day of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on July 28, she will resume her regular duties as poolside reporter.
The trans activists are so evil, Miss Davies, 59, said, “If you don’t roll over and do whatever they tell you to do, they go after you like you cannot believe.”
They made my life miserable by calling the charity I worked for and my employers. However, BBC Sport has been excellent.
Anyone who experienced male puberty is no longer permitted to compete against women, according to Fina, the international regulatory organization for swimming.