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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Holly Bancroft

Transgender pool player Harriet Haynes will fight ban from sport for ‘integrity and fairness’

A transgender pool player banned from competing in women’s English eight-ball tournaments is taking her fight to overturn the decision back to court in the name of “integrity and fairness”.

Harriet Haynes lost a discrimination claim against the English Blackball Pool Federation (EBPF) at Canterbury County Court last August after a judge ruled that the exclusion of those not assigned female at birth was the only way to ensure “fair competition”.

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