A big day for women’s rugby
Back to Topic
Click to Print
Useful Websites
Glossary Term Selection
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 males for validation, based on the increased concussion risk for females in a clash with a male body. Thankfully, it looks like the RFU is about to do the right thing and follow World Rugby in limiting the women’s game to those born female, albeit two seasons later. We congratulate them on having the integrity to recognise the need for policy change and to act on it.
Fair Play For Women has been lobbying the RFU and national governing bodies of other sports (NGBs) for years now, pointing out that wo...
Want to see the rest of this article?
Would you like to see the rest of this article and all the other benefits that Issues Online can provide with?
- Useful related articles
- Video and multimedia references
- Statistical information and reference material
- Glossary of terms
- Key Facts and figures
- Related assignments
- Resource material and websites
