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To the Lords

They still can't get it right – from the Telegraph:

Sharron Davies, the Olympic swimming medallist, is to be made a Conservative peer after leading a campaign to ban transgender people from women’s sport.

Not true. She hasn't campaigned against trans men – biological women – in women's sport. What she's campaigned against is transgender men in women's sport. They shouldn't be in women's sport because they're men, not because they're trans.

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  1. Dom Avatar
    Dom

    “What she’s campaigned against is transgender men in women’s sport.”
    Actually trans women in women’s sports. Or trans identified men. The latter is the better phrase.

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    Mick H

    Well OK, maybe. I was contrasting the article’s “transgender people” with the reality of “transgender men”. Because they are transgender men – men who are transgender.

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