Last week I had the privilege of attending a long lunch with former Olympian and Commonwealth Games champion weightlifter Deborah Acason, nee Lovely. And let me tell you she IS so lovely!
Swimming Australia has a lot to answer for. Why are they so reluctant to defend our female champions against males appropriating womanhood in their sport?
Lia Thomas, a male swimmer who appropriates the female sex, is gunning to take the place of a legitimate woman to pursue his Olympic dream. He claims trans women are “not a threat to women’s sports” and men imitate being women because they want to be happy.
All female athletes need to take a leaf out of this champion’s book. Taylor May Silverman, a professional skateboarder, has drawn a line in the sand and called out the misogyny and unfairness at play when males appropriate womanhood and take what belongs to females.
In another blow to women’s sport, a male longboard surfer has taken the crown as the women’s state champion in Western Australia.
A motion to protect women’s sport in Queensland has been voted down by Labor and the Greens.
At last, common sense and decency have begun to prevail.
Britain has had its own “Lia Thomas moment”, when the unfairness of allowing biological males to compete in female sport becomes just too much for everyone to ignore.
A six-foot male soccer player has been signed up as goalkeeper in the female England Universities team.
Biological males appropriating womanhood is about to hit hard in Australia. Over the past few weeks, even months, there has been an increasing awareness of transgender athletes making a mockery of female sport.
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