Trans pool player fights ban in landmark women’s sport appeal

• Transgender pool player Harriet Haynes is appealing a court decision that upheld her ban from women’s English eight-ball tournaments.
• Haynes previously lost a discrimination claim after a judge ruled that excluding those not assigned female at birth was necessary for fair competition.
• Her appeal is expected to be the first case to test the impact of a Supreme Court ruling that defined “woman” under equality law as biologically female.
• The Supreme Court ruling has already led to wider restrictions for trans women in various sectors, including Girl Guides, Women’s Institutes, some public toilets, and darts.
• Haynes’s legal team will argue that the ban impacts integrity and fairness, and that the Supreme Court ruling’s implications do not comply with Articles 8 and 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

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Transgender pool player Harriet Haynes will fight ban from sport for ‘integrity and fairness’