Mick Hartley

Telegraph headline – Trans fencers banned from women’s competitions. No, no, no – it’s men being banned. Men who claim to be women. Headlines like this just play into the hands of gender activists complaining about “transphobia”.

Still, good news.

British Fencing has joined many sporting bodies worldwide in prohibiting biological males from competing against biological women.

It is the latest sport in the UK to take the step, after table tennis, football and cricket. The rule changes follow April’s Supreme Court ruling that the legal definition of a woman under the Equality Act is based on biological sex.

The change to British Fencing’s rules, introduced in January, emerged during the International Fencing Federation Congress in Bahrain last month.

The policy reads: “Only individuals whose sex at birth was female may compete in the female category.”

Better, “only women may compete in the female category”. But yes, we get the point.