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Football v Homophobia @footballvhomophobia.com · Sep 5

🏳️‍🌈⚽️🏳️‍⚧️ Take us back to #FootballPride 2025… 🫶

📸 Pics by our superb snapper Mili Domingos

🙏 Thank you to everyone who played their part in making last Friday in Leicester such a memorable day, full of Pride, protest and queer football joy!

🩷⚫️ Support FvH and @pridesports.bsky.social

Speakers and supporters outside the Y Theatre at Football Pride

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Sports Media LGBT+ @sportsmedialgbt.com · Aug 28

🏳️‍🌈⚽️🏳️‍⚧️ Josh Cavallo will be in Leicester on Friday to speak at #FootballPride

🗣️ “There really is no event quite like it – it’s joyful and uplifting, with a strong spirit of protest that’s fitting for the fractious times we’re living in” - @louenglefield.bsky.social, @footballvhomophobia.com

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Trailblazing gay player Josh Cavallo to speak at Football Pride in Leicester on Friday

Australian’s first public speaking engagement since his summer switch to U.K.; 25-year-old made history as the only active out gay male footballer in a top-tier league; tickets just £20 for Friday’s e...

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Football v Homophobia @footballvhomophobia.com · Aug 26

🎤 Bringing all the hot goss to the #FootballPride party, it’s our charmingly chaotic co-host, Becky Taylor-Gill!

🏳️‍🌈⚽️🏳️‍⚧️ The Studs founder is swapping the Counter Pressed studio for The Y Theatre stage - for one day only! and that day is THIS FRIDAY, 29th August 😮

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Pride Sports UK @pridesports.bsky.social · Aug 21

JOIN US to mark the start of the biggest ever Women’s Rugby World Cup, as we launch Rugby Pride 2025 🏉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 with a breakfast panel and networking event in Manchester as the city also gears up for a weekend of Pride LGBTQ+ celebrations 🥳🎉

TOMORROW MORNING - Get your FREE ticket via the link below!

Rugby Pride 2025 Launch Breakfast

To mark the start of the biggest ever Women’s Rugby World Cup, join us for the launch of Rugby Pride 2025!

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Pride Sports UK @pridesports.bsky.social · Aug 9

Tickets >>> www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rugby-prid...

Rugby Pride 2025 Launch Breakfast

To mark the start of the biggest ever Women’s Rugby World Cup, join us for the launch of Rugby Pride 2025!

www.eventbrite.co.uk

Pride Sports UK @pridesports.bsky.social · Aug 9

The countdown continues for the Rugby Pride Launch Breakfast on Friday 22 August in Manchester 🏉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

We’re thrilled to announce our first speaker - England Red Rose, Barbarains RFC star and the power behind the #RuckYou match, Director of Bisons RFC, Sacha Acheson ⭐️

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Pride Sports UK @pridesports.bsky.social · Aug 8

📣 The countdown is on for the #RugbyPride Launch Breakfast on Friday 22nd August in Manchester, ahead of Manchester Pride weekend!

We’re delighted to announce our Host for the morning, Nick Heath

Get your tickets >>> www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rugby-prid...

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Lou Englefield @louenglefield.bsky.social · Aug 7

Fantastic read on the (il)legality of sex testing in sport.

With particular reference to World Athletics & World Boxing’s decision to introduce genetic testing as a precondition for competing in the women’s category 🧬

Sex Testing on Trial

verfassungsblog.de

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Football v Homophobia @footballvhomophobia.com · Aug 5

📣 We’re thrilled to announce that Lars from ‘I Kissed a Boy’ will be speaking at Football Pride on Friday 29 August in Leicester!

🎧 He’s also a guest on a new episode of the FvH Podcast. Listen here 👉 pod.fo/e/30ad20

🏳️‍🌈⚽️🏳️‍⚧️ Info & tkts 👉 ytheatre.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

#LGBTQ #football /1

Speaker announcement | Lars Fellows - TV’s ‘I Kissed a Boy’ | Football Pride | Friday 29th August 2025 | The Y Theatre, Leicester | a photo of Lars wearing a red and blue shirt

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Pride Sports UK @pridesports.bsky.social · Jul 28

HUGE Congratulations to our very own @transsomething.bsky.social on winning the prestigious EGLSF Advocacy Award for her work on #trans inclusion in sport🏆🏳️‍⚧️

sportsmedialgbt.com/natalie-wash...

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Pride Sports UK @pridesports.bsky.social · Jul 10

Huge congratulations to Caster Semenya on winning this important case! 🙌

We’ll be interested to see how this decision impacts sports & human rights going forward

Caster Semenya wins ECHR appeal as sex eligibility case set to return to court

The 34-year-old has been unable to compete in her favoured 800 metres event since 2019

www.independent.co.uk

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Football v Homophobia @footballvhomophobia.com · Jul 8

📣 BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! Football Pride is BACK for 2025, this time in lovely #Leicester, on Friday 29 August!

🏳️‍🌈⚽️🏳️‍⚧️ It’ll be the third annual summer get-together from FvH, celebrating LGBTQ culture and community in the game. Tickets on sale NOW! Link in next skeet…

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Football Pride - A Day of Queer Football Culture - Friday 29 August 2025 - The Y Theatre, Leicester

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Pride Sports Cymru @pridesportscymru.bsky.social · Jul 7

Lovely Dan Jervis helped us promote #EuroGames2027 in London last week at an event at Canary Wharf.

Asked how he would have felt as a young person growing up gay in the Valleys, he responded….

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Rainbow Devils @rainbowdevils.bsky.social · May 18

Fantastic display of solidarity with @chelseapride.bsky.social for the trans+ community at today's Women's FA Cup Final! ❤️💙

We stand by our trans, non-binary and intersex siblings in their time of need. Transphobia has no place in women's football!

#MUWomen #WomensFACupFinal

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Sports Media LGBT+ @sportsmedialgbt.com · May 5

🏏🏳️‍⚧️ “We play against men and boys all the time, otherwise we don’t play at all. To claim otherwise betrays a severe lack of understanding of women’s grassroots #cricket.”

#LetThemPlay #LetTransWomenPlay

@daisycutterzine.bsky.social @out4cricket.bsky.social @pridesports.bsky.social

Katy @ithilienorthend.bsky.social · May 2

If anyone is interested in my email:

Dear ECB,

I was very disappointed to read today that you are barring trans women and girls from playing cricket. Here are the reasons why this is the wrong decision:

1) “Biological sex” is not a binary. As anyone with biology training above GSCE level will be able to explain, there are many aspects which feed into the determination of sex, including physical characteristics, chromosomes, genes, hormones and hormone receptors. Around 1% of all babies are born intersex in some way, and many of those people will never know that e.g. their chromosomes don’t match their external genitalia, or only find out as an adult experiencing fertility issues. The idea that everyone can be clearly split into Male or Female even physiologically, let alone mentally, is biologically ignorant. (I have a PhD in biosciences but frankly this stuff is secondary-school-level biology.)

2) As a (cis) woman who enjoys cricket, I know that, despite being a game played by women in its earliest phase…

…I know that, despite being a game played by women in its earliest phase, cricket has had a history of being dominated by men and being hostile to women and minorities. There have been a few noteworthy moments when the cricketing establishment were trailblazers for equality and diversity - the exclusion of the apartheid South African team, for example, or Learie Constantine becoming the first black member of the House of Lords - and in recent years cricket in the UK has made great strides towards inclusivity for women, disabled people, and minority ethnic communities. It is trampling over this good work to now come out with a blanket exclusionary policy.

3) At the grassroots level, many women’s teams have enough trouble trying to field eleven players each week as it is. Reducing the people they can pick from will mean more matches conceded because of a lack of players, and so less cricket available for all women.

4) As to the so-called “risk” posed by “stronger” trans women to cis women players, as mentioned in point 3 many…

…players, as mentioned in point 3 many women can’t play in an all-female team anyway because of lack of players. We play against men and boys all the time, otherwise we don’t play at all. To claim otherwise betrays a severe lack of understanding of women’s grassroots cricket. There are also huge variations in the natural and trained abilities of different women - if I faced an England women’s bowler in the nets, they would knock my head off far quicker than any trans woman in the country. Trans women are not a safety risk.

5) There are many advantages to playing a team sport regularly, from benefits to health and fitness, to the social and wellbeing aspect, which I would hope the ECB was aware of. Stripping these benefits from a section of society actively damages those people’s health and wellbeing. Is the aim to kill off all trans people through obesity? It’s irresponsible to deliberately target one group with poor health outcomes, which is the inevitable outcome of sporting bans.

In conclusion, I hope you quickly reconsider the ban you have implemented…

…In conclusion, I hope you quickly reconsider the ban you have implemented. It is logically untenable and the only possible excuse for it is bigotry. I like to reflect on the instances where cricket leads the fight against bigotry - I hope you will quickly decided to be on the right side of history.

Regards,

Dr Katy Scott

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Pride Sports Cymru @pridesportscymru.bsky.social · May 16

Including LGBTQ+ people in sport & physical activity in Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

A lunchtime webinar for sport & physical activity providers across Wales.

£10pp & FREE to all EuroGames 2027 Partners

🎟️ includinglgbtq.eventbrite.co.uk

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Pride Sports UK @pridesports.bsky.social · Apr 17

….respected, valued and supported to achieve our best

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

Pride Sports UK @pridesports.bsky.social · Apr 17

…..and need some time to give these our full consideration. In the meantime, we remain committed to ensuring trans people access the life-saving benefits of sport and physical activity and will continue to work together towards a UK sector in which we are all able to be ourselves;

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Pride Sports UK @pridesports.bsky.social · Apr 17

@leapsports.bsky.social, Pride Sports & @pridesportscymru.bsky.social are deeply shocked by the decision of the UK Supreme Court in the case of For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers. We are concerned about the potential implications for trans people across the sport & physical activity sector…

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Pride Sports UK @pridesports.bsky.social · Mar 28

The Iberian Network of LGBTQ+ Sports Groups has made a strong statement against proposed “sex testing” by World Athletics.

Saying such practice is not based on scientific evidence, and illegal in countries like Spain.

La Agrupación Deportiva Ibérica rechaza los exámenes de sexo de World Athletics por "discriminatorios y acientíficos"

Recuerdan que científicas sólidas la existencia de una ventaja competitiva desproporcionada o de un riesgo inaceptable para la seguridad de los participantes.

www.marca.com

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Football v Homophobia @footballvhomophobia.com · Mar 27

The Football v Transphobia Week of Action culminates on 31 March, Trans Day of Visibility #TDOV2025

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Football v Homophobia @footballvhomophobia.com · Mar 25

Today marks the start of the Football v Transphobia Week of Action 2025! 🏳️‍⚧️⚽️🏳️‍⚧️

How will you get involved?
www.footballvhomophobia.com/fvt/

#fvt2025

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Pride Sports UK @pridesports.bsky.social · Mar 19

We love this year’s Football v Transphobia shirt! What do you think?

#fvt2025

Football v Homophobia @footballvhomophobia.com · Mar 19

📣 Announcing the BRAND NEW football shirt for the 2025 Football v Transphobia Week of Action #FvT2025 🏳️‍⚧️

Made to order & available now from our online store: www.footballvhomophobia.com/product/foot...

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Pride Sports UK @pridesports.bsky.social · Mar 15

#Grassroots football get involved! 🏳️‍⚧️⚽️🏳️‍⚧️

Football v Homophobia @footballvhomophobia.com · Mar 15

📣 GET INVOLVED in the Football v Transphobia Week of Action

25 - 31 March 2025

Let’s take a stand against transphobia & celebrate #trans people in the game 🏳️‍⚧️⚽️🏳️‍⚧️

✍️ Sign up here >> form.jotform.com/250703433939...

A black graphic containing the words Football v Transphobia, “Football for Everyone” and “Week of Action, 25 - 31 March 2025” and the hashtag “#FvT2025”. Also images of a football, a warning hand, a speech call out, and a heart in trans colours (blue, white & pink)

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Football v Homophobia @footballvhomophobia.com · Mar 11

Thank you @officialecfc.bsky.social 🙏🩷⚫️

#FvH2025

Exeter City FC @officialecfc.bsky.social · Mar 11

🏃🏼‍♂️ Out to warm up, supporting FvH!

#ECFC #SemperFidelis

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