Sharron Davies has counseled Donald Trump after he signed an government order to ban trans athletes from collaborating in girls’s sporting occasions, whereas pleading with Keir Starmer to do the identical within the UK.
The swimming legend, who represented Nice Britain within the Olympics, mentioned the choice was ‘within the USA not the UK sadly’.
In a name for the UK to observe within the US president’s footsteps, Davies wrote on X: ‘Please Keir Starmer are you able to now do as you mentioned you’d & shield all feminine athletes right here within the Uk in sport & cease males from stealing their locations, awards & growing their threat of harm? Intercourse in sport actually issues…’
It comes after Trump signed the controversial new government order barring transgender girls and ladies from competing in feminine sports activities, fulfilling a marketing campaign promise to ‘hold males out of ladies’s sports activities’.
Davies has been notably vocal on the problem previously, final 12 months claiming that ‘mediocre male athletes are stealing girls’s medals’.
In her foreword to a report by Coverage Trade on the toll trans ideology is taking up girls’s sport, Davies final 12 months urged policymakers within the UK to bar organic males from feminine beginner competitions.Â
Davies mentioned: ‘There’s a sense inside sports activities coverage that whereas we should always shield the feminine class inside elite sports activities, girls and ladies collaborating and competing at beginner ranges ought to budge over.Â
‘They need to ‘be variety’ and ‘inclusive’ whereas having to faux that it’s not grossly unfair, demotivating and presumably unsafe to accommodate organic males inside their races, groups and sports activities days’.
Sharron Davies has begged Keir Starmer to observe in Donald Trump’s footsteps after he signed a invoice that may see trans athletes banned from girls’s sporting occasions
US President Donald Trump (C), surrounded by younger feminine athletes, indicators an government order banning transgender athletes from girls’s sports activities, within the East Room of the White Home in Washington
Davies wrote to the British PM: ‘Please Kier Starmer are you able to now do as you mentioned you’d & shield all feminine athletes right here within the Uk in sport & cease males from stealing their locations, awards & growing their threat of harm?’
She argued: ‘For too lengthy, these liable for setting coverage inside sports activities have prioritised transgender inclusion over the rights of feminine athletes.’
The Olympic medallist went on to warn that ‘we threat alienating a technology of future feminine athletes if we faux that biology doesn’t matter inside sport’.
However Davies will not be the primary athlete or sporting character to return ahead and lift issues over the UK’s place on the matter.
Former Tradition Secretary Lucy Frazer final 12 months wrote to sporting our bodies, together with the Soccer Affiliation, and mentioned they’ve a ‘obligation’ to taken an ‘unambiguous place’ on whether or not transgender athletes can compete.
Final month, England Hockey introduced it is going to ban transgender girls from competing within the feminine class from the beginning of subsequent season.
As a part of its new transgender and non-binary participation coverage, the governing physique has established two classes of competitions – feminine and open – with the latter ‘open to all’, together with transgender and non-binary gamers.Â
‘Based mostly on the present accessible proof – and that hockey requires the bodily capabilities of power, endurance, pace and acceleration as key elements for fulfillment – hockey is taken into account a gender-affected sport,’ England Hockey mentioned.
‘Based mostly on this proof, we now have decided that the Trans and Non-Binary Participation Coverage ought to limit trans participation in an effort to safe truthful competitors. We’re dedicated to supporting all affected gamers to make sure they discover the correct path for them to proceed to take part in hockey.’
The brand new coverage will come into impact from September 1 this 12 months.
It comes after UK Athletics two years in the past banned transgender girls from competing within the feminine class in its competitions and occasions inside the UK.
World Athletics additionally introduced a ban at worldwide stage.Â
Olympic medalist Sharron Davies pictured within the Gladiators recreation present – produced by LWT for ITV from 10 October 1992 to 1 January 2000
UKA mentioned its place is that athletics ought to ‘stay an inclusive sport’ however it’s ‘truthful’ that athletes who’ve gone by male puberty needs to be excluded from the feminine class.  Â
Lord Sebastian Coe revealed he was exploring a full ban on transgender girls competing in girls’s occasions on the Olympics if he wins the election to turn into probably the most highly effective particular person in sport.Â
He’s certainly one of seven candidates to turn into president of the Worldwide Olympic Comittee (IOC) subsequent month and a part of his manifesto vows to introduce ‘science-based insurance policies that safeguard the feminine class’.
Lord Coe informed Sky Information in December: ‘We have taken the lead at World Athletics, as you understand, and I believe for me the precept could be very clear.
‘However when you’ve got a vacuum round this coverage place, then you find yourself with a few of the issues that we witnessed in Paris.’
The previous double Olympic champion was referring to Imane Khelif, who gained a girls’s boxing gold medal after contentious claims round a failed gender eligibility check.
Within the US, Trump’s newest order, titled ‘Conserving Males Out of Girls’s Sports activities,’ was signed on Nationwide Women and Girls in Sports activities Day and can penalise colleges and athletic associations that enable transgender athletes to take part in feminine classes.Â
Faculties present in violation might lose federal funding below the directive.
In a put up shared by White Home Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt that learn: PROMISES MADE, PROMISES KEPT! President Trump indicators an Govt Order to BAN males in girls’s sports activities!’ Davies responded whereas praising the American chief.
‘And it is so essential that is phrased accurately. Trump has accurately banned ‘males’ from a class they by no means ever belonged in.. girls & ladies,’ she wrote.
The order, titled ‘Conserving Males Out of Girls’s Sports activities,’ was signed on Nationwide Women and Girls in Sports activities Day
‘Biology issues particularly in a bodily exercise like sport, however girls & ladies deserve areas away from any & all males’.Â
Surrounded by feminine athletes and supporters on the signing, Trump declared: ‘The struggle on girls’s sports activities is over.’Â
He framed the transfer as a mandatory step to guard equity in feminine athletics, evaluating it to his earlier efforts to take away what he known as ‘woke lunacy’ from the army.
The order goes past college sports activities, with Trump additionally vowing to dam transgender athletes from competing in elite worldwide occasions hosted within the US.
Referring to the upcoming 2028 Los Angeles Olympics and the 2026 FIFA World Cup, Trump acknowledged: ‘My administration won’t stand by and watch males beat and batter feminine athletes.Â
‘We’re not going to let it occur.’
In a dramatic transfer, he additionally introduced that his administration would deny visa purposes for transgender girls who try and compete as feminine athletes in US-based competitions.
‘Simply to ensure, I am directing our secretary of homeland safety to dam any fraudulent purposes by males making an attempt to enter the US as girls athletes,’ Trump added.
