‘People are welcoming’ – Goal Diggers FC hold inclusive tournament as FA ban on trans women starts

Billie Sky (left) took part in Sunday’s Let the Dolls Play tournament, but is now banned from playing FA-affiliated women’s football. Photograph: Billie Sky

On Sunday morning more than 100 players gathered in north London to compete in an inclusive women’s football tournament to protest against the ban on transgender women in women’s football on the day it came into effect.

Last month the Football Association announced that trans women would no longer be able to compete in women’s football as result of the supreme court’s ruling on 16 April that the terms “women” and “sex” in the Equality Act 2010 refer only to biological women and biological sex. This is believed to affect 28 FA-registered trans women.