Make it illegal for transgender females to compete in female sport.

Rejected 14 signatures

What the petition asks

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.

Why it was rejected

It asked for something that is not the responsibility of the UK Government or Parliament.

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": https://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.

Timeline

30 Mar 2022	Petition opened for signatures
4 Apr 2022	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 14

Status Rejected

Rejected 4 Apr 2022

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