Sport: Supreme Court Ruling on Sex and Gender

Lord Kennedy of Southwark Excerpts

Wednesday 7th May 2025 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Hoey (Non-Afl)]

My Lords—

[Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms and Chief Whip (Lord Kennedy of Southwark) (Lab Co-op)]

We will hear from the noble Lord first and then from the noble Baroness on the Lib Dem Benches.

[Lord Young of Acton (Con)]

My Lords, in light of the Supreme Court judgment, as well as the FA’s change of policy, will the Minister take this opportunity to invite—not tell—the FA to apologise to those women whom it has penalised for objecting to the participation of biological males in women’s football. I am thinking in particular of the teenage girl who received a six-match ban from Lancashire FA for asking a bearded opponent she was about to play against on a ladies team whether he was a man.