Sporting regulators fear being cancelled or sued if they ban trans competitors from female sports, a MP has told Parliament.
Tim Loughton said the organisations want firm rules on ensuring that only biological females compete against each other, but risk “vexatious, costly legal actions” and being dragged on social media as “transphobic and exclusionary.”
The Tory politician said biological sex needed to be defined within law so that regulators can confidently ensure women and girls do not face disadvantages within their own categories.
He said the “conflation of sex and gender” had led to a climate of fear and self-censorship that also stretched as far as Parliament….