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| Transgender women banned from female pool events in UK - Vanguard News |
| 2025-04-25 |
| [VANGUARDNGR] Transgender women have been banned from the female category of Ultimate Pool Group (UPG) events following last week's UK Supreme Court ruling. "Too many balls on the table!" The sport in this country has been mired in controversy over its transgender inclusion policies. Trans woman Harriet Haynes is suing the English Blackball Pool Federation (EBPF) after it changed its rules to ban trans women from its female category. A group of female players had challenged the UPG and World Eightball Pool Federation (WEPF) rules which allowed Trans women to compete. The Supreme Court declared last week that the words ''woman and sex'' in the Equality Act 2010 referred to a biological woman and biological sex. The UPG changed course however, and became the first sports body to update its policies since. The UPG also said the change in policy was prompted by receipt of a report which confirmed pool was a gender-affected sport under the Equality Act. It therefore permits the lawful exclusion of athletes based on sex. ''Since its inception UPG has been caught in a vacuum of uncertainty surrounding the issue of eligibility to participate in its women's series,'' the announcement from UPG read. ''The clear conclusion of the biological and cue sports expert who jointly authored the report was that eight ball pool was a gender-affected sport. That was in cue sports female players have unique disadvantages compared to male players and that transgender women retain male advantages. |
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