General Article A big day for women’s rugby

Topic Selected: Sport Book Volume: 411

Fairness and safety should be upheld.

By Fiona Thomas

On Friday the Rugby Football Union Council will vote on whether to restrict women’s rugby to those born female. Given that rugby is a full-contact sport with a concussion problem, you’d think it obvious that heavier, stronger, faster male bodies should not be tackling women, no matter how those male bodies identify.

It’s more than two years since World Rugby made the case, putting female safety ahead of the wishes of trans-identifying male...

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