Submitted on Wednesday 30th March 2022
Rejected on Monday 4th April 2022
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Make it illegal for transgender females to compete in female sport.
The UK’s Sports' Governing Bodies seem unable to be able implement fair and sensible policy over the inclusion of transgender and binary athletes in competition. The Government needs to help them by legislating to make it illegal for such athletes to compete in anything other than open competition.
In most sports, transgender female can compete with a total testosterone level in serum of more than twice that seen in most biological females. This is on top of the advantage gained by years of being male. It is clearly unfair and endangers the viability of female sport. This is not a measure to exclude transgender athletes from sport but one that ensures biological females can take part in more equitable and fairer competition. To not do so, is akin to effectively allowing a sporting fraud.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Section 195 of the Equality Act 2010 already allows sports competition organisers to "exclude participation of a transsexual person as a competitor in a gender-affected activity if it is necessary to do so to secure in relation [...] fair competition, or the safety of competitors": www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/section/195
Deciding who should be eligible to take part in individual sporting events are a matter for the organisers, not the UK Government or Parliament.
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