Britain's Sharron Davies is an athlete, an Olympic medalist - she won the silver in the 1980 Olympics in the 400-meter individual medley. She has competed in three Olympic Games in total, in the '70s, '80s, and '90s. That's a remarkable record. She also won two gold, two silver, and two bronze medals at the Commonwealth Games in 1978 and 1990, and two bronze medals in the European Championships in 1977.
Sharron has attended a total of 12 consecutive Olympics, as a competitor and as a sports reporter for BBC Sport.
That's a remarkable career, made possible in no small part because Sharron wasn't competing against men. That matter has been subject to a lot of shouting and name-calling, in the United Kingdom, the United States, and elsewhere. Sharron tirelessly opposes this and has come up with a great way to do so; she is starting up a Women's Sports Union to combat the practice of allowing "transgender women" - men - to compete in women's sports.
The former Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies is set to launch a women’s sports union next month that will sue governing bodies that discriminate against female athletes.
She said she was willing to be litigious with sports organisations that failed to protect female recreational sports by allowing trans women to compete.
Davies, 62, who has campaigned to keep single-sex sports, announced her plan at a talk to discuss whether women’s sport had been “betrayed”.
It's a trifle baffling that this is even a topic of debate. We've seen plenty of cases here in the USA of women and girls being betrayed by this lunatic practice, and that battle is being waged here in the courts. The Trump administration has come down against the practice, but many state and local school boards are still, inexplicably, in favor of allowing boys and men to compete against girls and women - and to share their locker rooms.
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That's changing, somewhat. A recent United Kingdom Supreme Court decision established a little bit of reality in the whole "how many sexes are there" debate (Hint: There are two) but Sharron Davies is pointing out that in amateur athletics, which includes the Olympics, the fight is still ongoing.
She argued that sporting bodies had thrown female recreational sport “under the bus” by allowing trans athletes to continue to compete in amateur events while banning them from elite female competitions.
“This is absolute direct sex discrimination and we need to take it on,” Davies said. “I’ve got a foundation that’s coming online soon, probably the middle of October. It will absolutely be going after these governing bodies that are not looking after all of our girls and will start to get litigious with them if we have to.”
It is sex discrimination, against women, by which we mean, actual women. The really fun part of all this is that the issue of placing men in women's sports teams is exclusively the province of the political left, which also claims to wear the mantle of being pro-woman.
Women athletes, it seems, are excluded from the left's concern. The left is clearly more concerned with DEI than keeping women's sports for, you know, women. And why?
Davies, who has been nominated to become a Conservative peer by Kemi Badenoch, blamed such discrimination on the influence of Stonewall and diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) officers on the boards of sports organisations.
She said: “They are 20-year-olds with purple hair, making everyone scared stiff of even saying to them, ‘this is not fair’. This has got to stop. We have got to bring common sense back into the boardroom and enable people to make sensible decisions.”
She's not wrong. Right here in the United States, too many politicians, local, state, and national, are too quick to bend their knees to pink-haired, shrieking "activists." And if it takes an organized women's sports union to put a stop to it, then more power to Sharron Davies and her plan. The legal system can, after all, be used by both sides.
If any such issue is to be decided by evidence, facts - there are plenty of facts available, and they all argue clearly against allowing men in women's sports. It doesn't matter how many hormone treatments or surgeries a "transgender woman" has had; they still retain the very real and significant physical advantages men have over women. These advantages are decided at conception and are present even pre-puberty.
These are facts. It's rather amazing that the pro-biology side of this issue has to keep pointing this out. I've mentioned before my grandson "Moose," who has a chest like a beer keg, fists almost as big as his head, who is as steady on his feet as a pile-driver and just as hard to push over - and he's five. He's already stronger, faster, and has more stamina than his sister, who is twice his age.
It's a little frustrating that someone like Sharron Davies should have to expend so much time and energy fighting back against an agenda that goes against not only biology, anatomy, and physiology, but also against basic aspects of human sexual differences that people have known about and accepted for thousands of years. But we can and do admire Sharron for her grit and her determination - and hope that she sees great success in squashing this lunacy.
