Trans women banned from England Ladies angling team

Trans women banned from England Ladies angling team

Source: thepinknews

11/29/2023

Credit: Getty

Recreational fishing’s governing body has said its latest trans participation policy will ban transgender anglers from competing for England in the women’s category.

In September, three members of the England ladies shore fishing team resigned after they refused to compete alongside trans teammate Becky Lee Birtwhistle Hodges.

The team’s former captain Heather Lindfield quit over the issue in June, saying she believed Hodges had an unfair increased upper-body strength, which, she claimed, allows an angler to cast further.

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