The conversation surrounding the topic of transgender athletes competing in women’s sports events continue. Former Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies spoke to Sky News in an interview, stating publicly the issues she is seeing with the increasing number of transgender women claiming victories in women’s sports in the United States.
Davies said she knows a lot of other female athletes who are scared to voice their concerns about transgender women, who were born male, competing in women’s sports. Many are afraid of being labeled “non-PC,” or accused of hate speech if they were to address the issue.
“And that’s what I think is wrong with this debate. Why should we label someone who has a different view as you as transphobic?” the former British Olympian said, calling for open and honest conversation.
Rachel McKinnon, a male who identifies as a transgender woman, won the women’s sprint in the 2018 UCI Masters Track Cycling World Championships. McKinnon has accused Davies of “sharing hate speech,” calling her a “transphobe.”
Concerning the accusations, Davies stuck to her position.
“I’m still going to stick to my point of view [which] is that, unfortunately, if you’re a transgender woman you will have spent a fair bit of your life and puberty as a man, or as a boy, and you would have the male benefits that that would give you,…
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