Make sport fair for all

MaNy sporting activities are segregated into male and female, plus paralympic, categories. Surely it’s not beyond the wit of mankind to create a transgender category? this would permit fair competition for all.

Competitors and spectators alike have been let down by various authorities for far too long. Just deal with it.

mIcHael younG, dover, kent. It IS cheering to see Lucy Frazer, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, support fairness in sport for women and girls (Mail).

the Football association and england and Wales Cricket Board should be ashamed that they are not saying the same. But it’s disappointing that fairness is proposed only for those women who are already ‘elite’. out of 18 million women and girls in the UK who play sport regularly, only around a thousand are ‘elite’, earning their living from it.

how does anyone get there? through school and club sport, usually starting in childhood.

If boys who identify as trans are allowed to compete against girls, the contest will not be a fair one.

Girls put off by this unfairness in schools and clubs may give up sport altogether. the same goes for nonelite women.

all women and girls deserve fair, safe sport as much as world- class women do. Men and boys already have fair, safe sport. to deny it to women and girls is sexism.

FIona mcanena, director of campaigns, Sex matters, e. london.