Among the recipients of these letters are the Football Association of Wales, the Irish Football Association, Swim England, and British Gymnastics, in addition to parkrun
Truly idiotic, and will probably backfire because anyone can see there’s no risk to women. If you just had everyone take part in a single category, parkrun would be absolutely fine.
On a more detailed level, this seems like another body that thinks a ruling which says “organisations may choose to discriminate on the basis of sex in order to provide single-sex spaces for certain purposes” means “organisations must choose to so discriminate” which is unbelievably stupid. However, the media doesn’t seem to have understood that either so it’s no wonder.
Truly idiotic, and will probably backfire because anyone can see there’s no risk to women. If you just had everyone take part in a single category, parkrun would be absolutely fine.
On a more detailed level, this seems like another body that thinks a ruling which says “organisations may choose to discriminate on the basis of sex in order to provide single-sex spaces for certain purposes” means “organisations must choose to so discriminate” which is unbelievably stupid. However, the media doesn’t seem to have understood that either so it’s no wonder.