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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Paul MacInnes

Ministers urged to enforce female-only categories in UK grassroots sport

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The Policy Exchange report argues that even community sporting events should be threatened with sanctions. Photograph: Glyn Kirk/AFP/Getty Images

Grassroots sports should lose their funding if they allow trans women to compete in female categories, a rightwing thinktank has claimed.

A report published by the organisation Policy Exchange argues that “the problem of biological males competing in the female category” goes beyond well-reported issues in elite competition and is in fact “a threat to the entirety of female sport”.

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