Sharron Davies urges Keir Starmer to follow Trump’s lead on transgender athlete ban

British Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies has called connected Labour person Keir Starmer to lucifer Donald Trump's prohibition connected transgender athletes successful women's sports.

The erstwhile Olympian has been a vocal campaigner connected the issue, claiming "mediocre antheral athletes are stealing women's medals."

In a caller Policy Exchange report, she warned that amateur athletics policies were forcing women to "be kind" and "inclusive" astatine the disbursal of fairness and safety.

"For excessively long, those liable for mounting argumentation wrong sports person prioritised transgender inclusion implicit the rights of pistillate athletes," Davies wrote, adding that "we hazard alienating a procreation of aboriginal pistillate athletes."

The statement has already prompted enactment successful British sport, with England Hockey announcing a prohibition connected transgender women from adjacent season. UK Athletics implemented akin restrictions 2 years agone pursuing World Athletics' planetary ban.

Lord Sebastian Coe, an IOC candidate, has suggested helium would see extending restrictions to the Olympics if elected adjacent month. "We've taken the pb astatine World Athletics," helium told Sky News successful December.

Trump's order, signed astatine a White House ceremony, chiefly affects precocious school, assemblage and grassroots sports. "From present connected women's sports volition beryllium lone for women," helium declared, informing schools they could suffer national backing if they don't comply.

"With this enforcement bid the warfare connected women's sports is over," Trump added. "If you fto men instrumentality implicit women's sports teams oregon invade your locker rooms, you volition beryllium investigated... and hazard your national funding."