How Sharron Davies dedicated herself to saving women’s sport 🙌🏻

In 2019, Sharron Davies entered the debate about the participation by trans women in female sporting competitions, opposing such participation and citing the biological advantage trans women hold in sports; a position supported by Olympic medal-winning sports people including Sally Gunnell, Nicola Adams, and Kelly Holmes.

In 2022, Sharron stated that trans women hold a potential biological male performance advantage at the elite level of 10-20% over cisgender females and called for women's sport to exclude XY chromosome athletes. In March, she wrote a column for The Times arguing that "trans women's" advantage is the result of going through male puberty, resulting in narrower angle between the hips and knees which testosterone reduction does not eliminate, and called for trans women to compete in an open category rather than being excluded from competition entirely. In the same article, she stated: "This month we saw an athlete, Lia Thomas, who was an average club swimmer as a man claim an NCAA title as the US No 1 woman with 20 years of male development in the tank."

Her dedication and commitment to women’s sport was rewarded in 2023 when Lord Coe ruled that Trans women would no longer be allowed to compete against biological women in International sport.