A statement of support for the ongoing inclusion of trans women in women's football - Let Trans Women Play!

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For many years, the women's football community has welcomed - and continues to welcome - the participation of transgender women in the women's game, in accordance with the English FA's Policy on Trans People in Football. This statement provides an opportunity to show solidarity with trans-inclusive football clubs and their players across England and the rest of the U.K. An option is provided to sign the statement as an individual or on behalf of a club, league or organisation.

Trans women face exclusion in all aspects of UK life - in housing, at work, on social media and on the street.

Discrimination can leave trans women feeling isolated and can impact their mental health. Which is why being part of a football team and part of the wider women’s football family is so important for the small number of trans women who play the game.

Football improves both physical and mental health and helps people feel like they belong. This is especially important for trans women in a country that has recently seen a huge growth in transphobic hate crime.

A petition is currently being circulated to ask the English FA to ban trans women from affiliated football, so we are asking women involved in football and our allies to join us in asking the FA to continue to include trans women.

Women were banned from football for 50 years, not because we needed to be protected, but because women’s football was seen as too challenging. As women’s football grows, we must not now leave any women behind and this includes trans women, who can benefit hugely from being part of the game we love.

Join us now in calling on the FA to keep trans women playing

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Let Trans women play sport is for everyone

Sport helped me thrive, it’s wrong to ban others based on bad science and political views, listen to the players who overwhelmingly support trans female players being included.

Trans women are my valued teammates and friends. They bring so much to the game and it would be barbaric to exclude them

In a world where minorities are excluded, I want to be a part of something that promotes inclusion for everyone.

Trans women belong in football, we can't let misinformation and fear shape the future of our game.

trans women belong in sport

Everyone should be allowed to play sport. People need to stop pretending that their transphobia is about protecting women’s sport. If you want to protect women’s sports, you should be helping to support ALL women in sport.

As a trans woman who plays football regularly for an FA affiliated team. The ban would ruin my life. Football is the only place I can clear my mind from lifes struggles. The only place where i don't feel harrassed and bullied & the one of the few places I can feel safe

Trans women have every right to play women's sports. They are not harming anyone they are just living their lives.

Trans people deserve access to sport and if that sport is divided by gender then they should be able to access sport playing with the gender they identify with. I am a cis woman who welcomes trans women to participate alongside me.

Trans women should be welcome to play and compete in women's football. We, as women who play and watch football, have created spaces in a male dominated and largely homophobic/misogynistic sport & fanbase that are inclusive, welcoming and that embrace LGBTQ+ folks on and off the pitch. It would be devastating for this to change.