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The fight for continued inclusion of transgender women in sport is, as you all but said, over. Some might say that the continued pressure from trans organisations to keep us in women’s sports over the last couple of years is the reason for the hate tirade spewing from the US like a ruptured sewer, but it’s not.

Anti LGBTQ+ policy was on the cards across the pond from 2015 when Trump first ran; a simple puppet that the Christian right could use, now powered up the uber rich who will do anything, anything to retain their power.

Sport would have still been a priority had Kamala won and, pre Musk, that would have been it and we would have continued to fight it. But he got in and there was no need for a stalking horse anymore, which was the trans community said right from the beginning.

Now the LGB zealots are blaming us for the coming storm that is set to wipe away their rights. They are blind to the fact that their failure to fully support us, as we have done them, has led to this point. The trans community stuck to LGBTQ+ because we are a minority and any reduction in numbers makes us weaker. We’re now at a point where it doesn’t really matter anymore.

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