Mick Hartley

The skittles are starting to fall after the Supreme Court ruling.

🚨 BREAKING: Teen footballer Cerys Vaughan has WON her appeal after being banned for asking a bearded trans player: “Are you a man?”

The FA’s case against her was thrown out after a damning ruling exposed a flawed and unfair process — one that left 17-year-old Cerys in tears.… pic.twitter.com/nlFy6IcZwp

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The FA’s case against her was thrown out after a damning ruling exposed a flawed and unfair process — one that left 17-year-old Cerys in tears.

We’re proud to say: we made her victory possible.

The Free Speech Union funded Cerys’s legal team, including a top-tier barrister, and supported her family through months of Kafkaesque disciplinary proceedings.

It’s thanks to that support that she was able to fight back — and win.

Following the Supreme Court’s ruling that “woman” means biological female under the Equality Act, the FA has now U-turned, scrapping its transgender inclusion policy: from June, males will be barred from the female game. That’s the right decision — but it comes too late for girls like Cerys, who were punished under speech codes that should never have existed.

Female players in single-sex football leagues should never have been forced to compete against men, given how much stronger, faster and more physically aggressive male players are, on average. For a teenage girl to receive a six-game ban simply for asking whether an opposing player was a man was a grotesque injustice — and we’re proud to have helped her get the decision overturned.

Telegraph report here.

‘I don’t think the opinions of a very, very small minority should be put over the opinions of thousands and thousands of women throughout the country. I think we should be prioritised’