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SPORTING BODY POLICIES
On 16th April 2025 the Supreme Court Judgment (16th April 2025 For Women Scotland Ltd (Appellant) v The Scottish Ministers (Respondent)) confirmed that the term ‘woman’ in law means the biological sex of female. The term ONLY applies to women and girls.
In sport, that means the Female category must only include women and girls whose biological sex is female.
Sports with policies that state male participants may self-identify into the female category do not comply with the Equality Act 2010.
Furthermore, no male has the right in law to self-identify into a female changing room, toilet or other single-sex space.
Some sports have amended their policies in the light of the ruling. Others have yet to change their policies. We have updated our Fair Sports Awards to identify those sports that are UNLAWFUL and those that have complied with the Law (GOLD).
There is no need for any sport to ‘wait for guidance’ from the Equality and Human Rights Commission. The EHRC has stated: ‘the law as set out in the Supreme Court’s very readable judgment is effective immediately.
‘Those with duties under the Equality Act must comply with the law and should be urgently reviewing what changes need to be made to their existing policies and practices.’
This is a fast-moving field. These listings were updated on 13th May 2025 and will be updated on a regular basis.
If your sport is listed here as UNLAWFUL please write to the CEO and request that they change their policies to comply with the law. Contact details are listed for each sport.
Title | May 2025 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Gold | 21 | |||
No Policy/Under Review | 18 | |||
Unlawful | 38 | |||
Total | 77 |
Awards | September 2023 | February 2024 | September 2024 | February 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Gold | 6 | 8 | 18 | TBA |
Silver | 11 | 16 | 7 | TBA |
Wooden Spoons | 57 | 52 | 53 | TBA |
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June 202529/06/2025 - Step Up Senedd!, Fear and Favour, NI failing FoI, Women: “People” or Not, Women: “Man’s Best Friend”?, Derbyshire’s Drag Drive, MANchester Living Up To Its Name, Afghanistan Vigils 23/06/2025 - Wales Recognising Women?, Family Education Trust Conference, Making Space in the Darkness, The Importance of Being Honest, When Will It End?, The Law, the Man and His Problem, Men: Be more Alan 15/06/2025 - Leisurely Voyeurism, Women: Be Seen, Committing the Committee, Stalls in the Streets, Heather’s Bin Busy 08/06/2025 - Making Waves with Sharron Davies, An Uplifting Evening in Manchester, Goal Diggers FC: Dribbling Past Women’s Rights?, Stitch in Time? National Trust’s Latest Yarn Unravels 01/06/2025 - Mothers Know Best: The Rise of MoMa Breastfeeding (and the Fall of La Leche Woke), The Scandal of Sexual Violence in Northern Ireland’s Hospitals, Stormont Shifts: WRN Take Centre Stage in Northern Ireland, Holyrood Goes Down the Pan
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May 202526/05/2025 - Red Flags: WRN’s New Campaign Takes a Stand in Swansea, Wales Is on Fire! (Figuratively… Don't Call the Fire Brigade), EHRC Opens Consultation: Have Your Say, BBC Radio 4’s Men’s Hour, Unbuyable – But Apparently, Some MSPs Didn’t Get the Memo, Who’s Inspecting the Inspectors? Care Watchdog’s Alarming Ties Under Scrutiny 18/05/2025 - Derby Festival of Women, Inaugural APPG, Step Up, Senedd: Welsh Women Demand Action Now, Facts Over Fury: Michael Foran Unpacks the Ruling, Peers Back Further Amendment in Data Bill Debate, WRN Fair Sport Awards update 10/05/2025 - Digital I-Depends, Policing Reality, Wales FA Still FA, Talking Balls, Guiding Girls to Lie 06/05/2025 - Bossing Police Chiefs, The Senedd’s Problem with Women, S4C’s Problem With Men, Radio Silence for Women?, Take Hartley, Sporting Indecency, Dodgy Darting, Parkrunning out of step, Fair Sports Awards, Norfolk Nazigate
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April 202527/04/2025 - Governmental Failure to Recognise Women, WRN Scotland and NI are heard!, New WRN Group Launches With a Challenge, Supreme Misogyny, WRN Manchester Combats Denial, Norfolking Around with the Receipts, One More From Norfolk, Parkrunning Within Law?, Women’s Rights Are Human Rights, Pool Party, “Woman’s” Hour, Listen with Women 19/04/2025 - Transwomen Are Not Women, Vigils for Women in Afghanistan 13/04/2025 - Tavistock “Gender Clinic” Promotes Conflation of Sex and Gender, Welcome to 1984 with Avon and Somerset Police, Urgent Plea for Afghan Woman’s Asylum Claim, Parkrunning for Misogyny, Tribunal to Determine if Women’s Pool can Legally Exclude Men, Joan of Learning Arc, Women’s Festival in Derby, WRN Manchester Event 31 May, Greens inadvertently canvass Norwich “nazi” 06/04/2025 - Campaigning Against Manchester Discriminating Against Women, Not Swimming For England, Wales Walking Back Women’s Discrimination?, Women Return to Public Platforms,
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March 202530/03/2025 - Mothers still have a day - enjoy, Misogyny and the Met, Northern Ireland’s Identity Crisis, WRN Northern Ireland Begins Meeting Political Parties, Boxing Women In, Pinching Women’s Titles, Keeping Tabs on the Numbers 23/03/2025 - Male Prison Officer Pretending to be Female Searching Women, Holyrood Leaders Leave Chamber When Women’s Issues Arrive, IOC Want “Inclusive” Women’s Events, Rowing for Women, Vital Vigils, Norwich City Council Debacle Continues, Scottish Scarf Scandal 15/03/2025 - Safe in the NHS?, Scotland Defeats Sturgeon, Holy-Rude to Women!, Met Police Vs Reality, Jersey Events End in Hope, Binning Objectification of Women 08/03/2025 - WRN Scotland Report in Holyrood, Wetherby Girls Given Hope, An International Women’s Day Event About Women, Working Together in Scotland, Vigils for Afghan Women 02/03/2025 - NPCC New (OLD) Guidance, Avon and Somerset Policing Policy, Cricket Shame, CBeebies Promote Drag Artists as “Mums”, Pool Party, Working Together in Scotland, Young Women Network, Norwich “Nazi” Update, Protest Clarification
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February 202523/02/2025 - WRN Scotland – Finally a Lot Going On, Yachting Hell?, Norfolk Ignoring Womenfolk, Norwich Greens’ Curious Conspiracy, WRN East Sussex in London, Special Sports Shorts 15/02/2025 - Male Doctor vs Female Existence, Stormont Not All Happy to Hear Facts from WRN NI, Unison Unties Women’s Rights, Girls Compromised at Swim England Events, Norfolk Green Opposes Vigil for Afghan Women, 09/02/2025 - Football Association Imbalance in Player Sanctions, Vigils for the Women and Girls of Afghanistan, Maiden Factor Boosts Visibility, Three Years of Manchester Denying Women Exist, Important Information on SheRACES 2025 Trail Series 01/02/2025 - WTF TUC?, "A woman living as a woman” in Scotland, One Man Reveals His Ignorance of Women’s Value to Policing, Vigils for the Women and Girls of Afghanistan, Lessons for Afghan Girls, International Women’s Day (IWD) Events Too Explicitly About Women, When Women Run – Jog or Hike, Pole Position for Female Swede
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January 202525/01/2025 - Women’s Justice, Prostitution Podcast, Misogyny Epidemic, Midlothian NHS Under Fire, WRN Jersey Builds on 2024 Events, When Women Run 19/01/2025 - Prostitution Promoted by Male-Dominated Unions, Are Scotland’s Hospitals Unsafe for Women?, Not Just Misogyny, This Is M&Sogyny, One Woman’s Amplified Marching Orders, It’s Just Not Cricket for Girls, Sports Shorts Kick Off 2025 12/01/2025 - “Grooming” gangs statement, Afghanistan Cricket and Action, NPCC and PSNI fail women, 2025 Sport, Vigils for Afghanistan, Sports Shorts, Are You a Viewer or a Member?
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December 202415/12/2024 - Organising for Afghanistan, Act Local, Women’s Rights National Network, Women’s Rights Regional Network, Women’s Global Network, A final word from our founder Heather Binning 08/12/2024 - Vigils for Women in Afghanistan, Manchester Council’s Failed Response, Workplace Guidance for Women’s Rights, New Sports Shorts, It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas Cards Leaflets T-shirts and Women’s Rights Presents, Advent Flash Fiction, Are You a Viewer or a Member?
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November 202430/11/2024 - British TRANSport Police, Female football fantasy, Supreme Clarity, Determination and Inspiration – from Victim to Survivor, Scotland’s Hope for Women and Girls, Rosie Duffield, It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas Cards, Leaflets, T-shirts and Women’s Rights Presents, Almost time for an advent calendar - open the first door on Sunday! 24/11/2024 - State Sanctioned Sexual Assault by British Transport Police, WRN Statement on Girls held in Mixed Sex Prisons, The Welsh Government is trying again. Very trying., WRN Jersey make the Jersey Post, It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas Cards 16/11/2024 - Swimming for “Women”, Afghanistan Needs Advocates, Why Women Won’t Wait, Sports Shorts, It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas Cards, WRN Zooms 09/11/2024 - Harris and “Women”, Men Prioritised in Olympic Women’s Boxing, MANchester City Council Challenged by Women, Leisure Centres – Putting Women and Girls at Risk, Consequences for Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre 02/11/2024 - After Dark Women Run, Afghan Women Sing, Vital Police Training, Manchester “Leisure”, Women for Women in Germany, Are You a Viewer or a Member?
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October 202426/10/2024 - Police Force Ignores Women’s Legal Rights, Men in Women’s Sports, The World Supports Women in Afghanistan, WRN At The Battle of Ideas, Mermaids Take-Away, Banter Bus, Fine for Women Naming Men Male, Sports Shorts 20/10/2024 - Updating the Equality Act 2010, Promoting Commercial Surrogacy, Ignoring Amateur Women, Street Stall Stories, Sports Short Podcast 13/10/2024 - WRN at the LGB Alliance Conference, Scottish Authorities’ Safeguarding Fail, Parkrun at 20 Denies Women’s Sports, Opposing Explicit Advertising Around Children, Sports Short Podcast 06/10/2024 - National Netball Nightmare, Schools Concern, Risky Teaching, WRN Sport Shorts, WRN Goes To Genspect, WRN Jersey’s Big Event, Labour Losing Women, LGBA Conference, Battle of Ideas, Resist German Self-ID
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September 202429/09/2024 - Non-contact Offences are Criminal, Surrey Police Fall In Line with the Law, Ironman Wales Ignores Women, Sign Up to Help Free Afghan Women and Girls, Police and Crime Commissioner Consultations, WRN at Labour Conference 21/09/2024 - Police Scotland to Give Rapists a “sense of belonging”, “Gender Quotas” in Wales, Rape Crisis Scotland Backed ERCC Instead of Victims, Anyone for Everyone, Oxford Polls as Sex-Realist!, Drew Augustine, Upcoming Dates 14/09/2024 - WRN Polices the Police – while they’re involved in activism instead of policing, Lobby Day at Parliament, Update on Met Police ‘Trans Day of Visibility’, 2024 Olympic Shame Revisited, Wrexham and Parkrun 07/09/2024 - Summer Scandal, Saving Women’s Sports, Libraries Promoting Lies, Sing for Women, Behind the Looking Glass, Opposing Laws That Criminalise Facts, XX Day, WRN and Free Speech
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June 202430/06/2024 - Explaining Reality to Labour – on the Doorstep, JKR, WRN and the GRC, Speaking of JKR, Speaking to Starmer, Women Speaking About Women, Hustings, Leaders’ Debate in Nottingham, UN Agrees to Taliban Demand to Sideline Women, Edinburgh Criminal Justice, Keir Starmer Speaks to a Woman, Scotland after the Adams Judgement, #SaveWomen’sSports, WRN Scotland Blog 22/06/2024 - Election Actions, Leafleting and Engaging, Raising the Banner, Speaking to Starmer, Gender in Jersey, Wales’ Gender Bill Scrapped, Podcast from WRN Scotland 15/06/2024 - Election Matters, Women Existing in Wales, National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) Continues To Fail Women, Northumbria Police Women, 1,000 Days Later for Women and Girls, Purchasing Power, Swimming Sees Sense 08/06/2024 - State-Sanctioned Sexual Assault, WRN Guernsey Correcting Published Lies, Election Actions, Female Mayor Wrong on Women’s Rights, Sophie Powers for Women, Australia’s Inequality Bill, Special Election Merchandise
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May 202425/05/2024 - WRN and Prospective MPs, When will the police stop gaslighting and start policing?, Edinburgh and Women, Gender GP included in ‘puberty blocker’ ban, ‘Honesty’ in the Senedd?, Derby Street Stall, Desexing Society in Australia 19/05/2024 - WRN and the FA, WRN on QT, WRN Scotland standing for facts in schools, MPs on the NHS, Sanity and reality break through in England, WRN Manchester and the UK's largest live entertainment arena 11/05/2024 - Guernsey Courts Embed a Lie, Ovarian Cancer Day Without ‘Women’, “Women’s” Health Magazine Dismisses Women, Inspiring Women – ‘Still I Rise’, The Woman Who Really Won the Chess, Derby Screening of Adult Human Female, Solidarity With Women Writers in France, Sunday Morning Inspiration, Our Lawyer of the Year 04/05/2024 - Australia’s “Equality” Bill, Save Women’s Football … leave no woman or girl behind, Single-sex spaces in schools – and everywhere, WRN on the Streets, Maiden, Meade for success, Lesbian Visibility, Law, meet Louise Distras
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April 202428/04/2024 - Standing up in the Senedd, Freedom of Speech at University, Women and the NPCC, WRN Derbyshire Mayoral Candidates, Who Judges the Judges?, Putting the John in…, Lesbian Visibility Week, Build a Girl 20/04/2024 - Local Elections - Respect My Sex, Police and Crime Commissioners: Respect My Sex, Puberty unblocked in Scotland?, Norwich Museum, Definition of ‘sex’ in Scotland, Women in Afghanistan 13/04/2024 - The Cass Report, Cass and sport, Tickle vs Giggle, Street stalls and election candidates, End FGM in The Gambia 06/04/2024 - Scotland’s War On Women, Police Report update, Self-ID in Wales, Australia Action, Podcast: When the Press goes Bad
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