Former Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies has vowed that campaigners "will not give up" until women's sports are "free from men" following the Football Association's decision to ban transgender women from women's football.
The FA announced today that transgender women will no longer be able to play in women's football from June 1, 2025.
Davies welcomed the decision, calling it "great news for the safety and fairness of all our girls and women in football".
She insisted that the ban "should never have been allowed in the first place" and urged "every sport" to follow suit.
Sharron Davies vowed to "not give up"
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She told GB News: "What's so silly is that nonconforming females have been playing football with women forever and a day.
"Even at the Olympic Games last summer in Paris, we had a trans man. So that's a female who identifies as a man in women's boxing.
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"Nobody had a problem providing that woman is not taking testosterone, which is illegal. Women do not care.
"They don't care what you call yourself, what you rock up wearing or who you identify as, providing it's a level playing field."
She added: "So it is it has been a disgrace and today has been a really, really good day, but there's still quite a lot of work to do. We've still got to sort out the marathon.
"We've still got to sort out parkrun. We've still got to make sure that women can have access to their pools and their private spaces. We will not give up."
The FA's decision follows last month's Supreme Court ruling that clarified the terms 'woman' and 'sex' in the Equality Act refer to biological women and biological sex.
The governing body had previously allowed transgender women to play in women's football if they reduced their testosterone levels.
Only around 20 transgender women are currently registered to play at a grassroots level in England.
The Scottish Football Association has also updated its policy, stating that only biological females can play in competitive female football from the start of the 2025-26 season.
The Football Association has announced a ban on transgender women from playing in women's football in England starting next seasonPAThe Supreme Court ruling on April 16 declared that under the Equality Act, trans women can be excluded from women-only spaces such as toilets and changing rooms.
The court ruled that Section 195 of the Act, which allows exclusion of athletes from gender-affected sports based on sex, was "plainly predicated on biological sex" rather than certified sex.
Former FA chairman Lord Triesman described the previous policies of sports bodies as "pitiful excuses" that had been "shown to be unlawful".
He stated: "Women's sport, as in all else, is defined by biological facts. There is no room for alternative propositions."
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