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The Mission of The Women’s Sports Union is to unite the voices of women and girls in UK sport.

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We believe everyone should have access to sport, but everyone must compete in the category to which their biological body belongs.

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All sports, by definition, are competitive; if you have a winner, a winning team, a place or a time.

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Competition in sport is sex affected because of the biological differences between the two sexes.

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Women and girls get a tiny proportion of the funding and opportunities that males get in sport; we want to improve that. Women and girls have specific challenges that are often ignored or overlooked.

How can we support you Our initial aims Why It Matters

Advocate for Equality

Fighting for fair funding, facilities, and opportunities for women across all sports.

Supporting Every Athlete

Offering resources, information, and networks for women and girls of all abilities.

Listening and advising

If you have experienced a male competing in a female sport category or if you have experienced direct or indirect sex discrimination, we want to hear from you.

Create Safe Spaces

Promoting respect, safety, and empowerment for women both on and off the field. This also included the ability to change away from any and all males.

Upholding UK Law and Female Sport Protections

For too long, organisations such as Stonewall have misrepresented the Equality Act 2010 to UK sporting bodies. DEI officers have embedded agendas that do not serve female athletes fairly, while many boards have been unwilling to challenge them. This must change.
The Supreme Court ruling confirming that the Equality Act always referred to biological sex allows us to rely on the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 to protect females across the UK, including Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Sports that breach UK law risk having their public liability insurance invalidated. We will work transparently with clubs and sporting bodies to ensure their insurance is compliant and that insurers are fully informed of the legal framework around sex-segregated sport and safeguarding.

Lobbying and Political Action

Applying pressure to ensure that all sports, including recreational levels, protect the female category.
Lobby government to withdraw taxpayer funding from sports that fail to protect female categories, increase injury risk, or deny women and girls equal opportunity.
Remind all sports that competitions are defined by the presence of a winner, a winning team, a ranking or an official time.

Facilities and Safeguarding

Require all public and private sports facilities with changing rooms labelled male/female (or men/women, boys/girls) to maintain sex-segregated spaces.
Push for legislation similar to Title IX in the USA, ensuring equal provision of facilities for women and men, including proper changing rooms in all new stadiums.
Highlight the specific biological and social challenges women and girls face in sport (e.g. menstruation, pregnancy, anatomy) and promote better design of kit, clothing and support systems.

Female Participation and Retention

Engage with government and schools to improve female participation and retention in sport. Girls are now dropping out as early as ages 11–12, compared with 14–15 in the past.
Insist that swimming lessons are Ofsted-checked. At present, lack of oversight is enabling schools to bypass the national curriculum, leaving too many children unable to swim 25m by age 11.
Challenge initiatives such as ParkRun, which remain competitive (due to category places and official times), to provide at least one female-only category. This is vital given the significant government funding ParkRun received to grow female participation, which cannot be measured if female categories are not biologically protected.