‘Difficult decision’ on trans women based on legal adviceGoal Diggers FC march 12 miles to deliver protest letterMark Bullingham, the chief executive of the Football Association, has written to London grassroots club Goal Diggers FC explaining the governing body’s decision to ban transgender women from women’s football. He said it “was not an ideological judgment, but a difficult decision” based on legal advice that a “change in policy was necessary” after the supreme court ruling said the term “woman” in the Equality Act refers only to a biological woman.Representatives of Goal Diggers undertook a 12-mile walk from their training pitches in Haggerston Park to Wembley Stadium on Monday to deliver their open letter to the FA. In it they demanded a reversal of the ban on transgender women from women’s football and described the FA’s decision as a “pitiful and weak response” to the supreme court’s ruling. Continue reading...