NEW: World Athletics’s reintroduction of sex testing at the World Championships 2025 is "a threat to all women", an expert has said. Spoke to Dr Sheree Bekker about the "insidious" effects of this policy for @scotnational.bsky.social. www.thenational.scot/sport/254819...

I of course welcome the recognition of the state of Palestine. And there won't be a Palestinian state left if government's continue enabling Israel's unfolding genocide. Labour can't credibly support Palestinian statehood whilst also continuing to arm Israel.

NEW: World Athletics’s reintroduction of sex testing at the World Championships 2025 is "a threat to all women", an expert has said. Spoke to Dr Sheree Bekker about the "insidious" effects of this policy for @scotnational.bsky.social. www.thenational.scot/sport/254819...

#journorequest Looking to speak to an academic e.g. historian, social scientist, political scientist etc... on the perceived freedom of speech crisis amid rising anti-immigrant rhetoric and far-right protests in the UK.

A few months ago, trans women and girls had the freedom to participate and enjoy football and cricket and their sporting families taken away from them. I've been investigating how their privacy was stripped from them too. My exclusive investigation: www.wearequeeraf.com/i-had-to-out...

A few months ago, trans women and girls had the freedom to participate and enjoy football and cricket and their sporting families taken away from them. I've been investigating how their privacy was stripped from them too. My exclusive investigation: www.wearequeeraf.com/i-had-to-out...

"The responsibility for growing women’s sport and achieving gender justice in sport should not lie with those who were not culpable for its marginalisation in the first place and have borne the brunt of abuse and discrimination since." evieashton.substack.com/p/stop-burde...

In 2025, female athletes are still expected to carry out unpaid labour and deal with online abuse and discrimination. My latest piece on the narrative that female athletes should be responsible for increasing their own, and their sport’s, visibility.👇 evieashton.substack.com/p/stop-burde...

Are we expecting too much of women's rugby players? My latest piece tackles the exhausting unpaid labour female athletes are expected to carry out.👇 open.substack.com/pub/evieasht...

You know who never gets called "a biological male"? Biological males.

“The “Reform FC Home Shirt” is far more than a gimmick. It is a key to unlocking more voters and mobilising support for a far right party.” My latest newsletter👇 evieashton.substack.com/p/why-the-uk...

"Seen as a football club, Reform UK is no longer a political party that, in government, would be responsible for tackling poverty, preventing climate catastrophe, or reducing NHS waiting times, but instead a “winning team” hoping to lift the league trophy." 👇 evieashton.substack.com/p/why-the-uk...

Why we can't afford to laugh off Reform UK's football shirts. My latest ✍️ evieashton.substack.com/p/why-the-uk...

“Linking sex attacks to migration is 'dangerous racist diversion' warn 100 women's rights groups” We all know racist men are just racist men and more likely to be a danger to women themselves. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

"Sport, with its inherent power and resource imbalances, has a unique capacity to generate, enable and support gender-based violence." More in my latest👇 evieashton.substack.com/p/does-sport...

Transphobia as justification for subjecting all women athletes to intrusive medical tests and someone else's definition of who they 'really' are. Cursory searches online indicate presence of the SRY gene has a complex range of effects, including none. This is nonsense. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athlet...

It cannot be denied: this is a deliberate and coldly-calculated famine, engineered by a technologically-advanced state which knows exactly what it is doing. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Most sportspeople and the sports workforce are great people, right? It's the morally depraved few that come in and ruin sport for everyone... Dived into some debunking of these popular beliefs this week.👇 evieashton.substack.com/p/does-sport...

“It’s all about inspiring the next generation of young girls in women’s sport, unless your trans.” Thinking of trans girls and women who have had the right to play football (what the Lionesses are all about) taken from them by the FA.

I am going to level with you - I can't enjoy this Euros win because everyone will use it as an excuse to forget they banned us.

Thrilled that the Lionesses have done it again. However, is the growth of women's football always the same as 'progress'? Words on this below. 👇 evieashton.substack.com/p/why-this-s...

After trans women were recently banned from women's football, attention is now turning to new restrictions on trans men, who must sign a declaration most are refusing to accept. @bernietranders.bsky.social explains more transwrites.world/fa-trans-men/

"So, while being gay may be normalised, it is only the gay and straight women’s footballers who conform to acceptable representations of femininity and womanhood that are permitted." Is women's football's LGBT+ inclusivity an illusion? Read more👇 evieashton.substack.com/p/what-ponyt...

"So, while being gay may be normalised, it is only the gay and straight women’s footballers who conform to acceptable representations of femininity and womanhood that are permitted." Is women's football's LGBT+ inclusivity an illusion? Read more👇 evieashton.substack.com/p/what-ponyt...

"As footballers who already transgress typical gender boundaries in being muscular and playing in the ‘male preserve’ of football, conforming to standards of femininity is essential to resist stereotypes and implications of being or wanting to be a man." Words on this👇

The women's euros start today so, naturally, I've decided to explore why only three of the competition's 368 players have short hair. My latest piece on what ponytails tell us about homophobia in women's football 👇. evieashton.substack.com/p/what-ponyt...

IDF is an institution, not a person. Saying “Death” to it, means abolishing the institution. We are in a very dangerous place if you cannot voice a negative opinion about an institution committing war crimes without this sort of thing, or accusations of antisemitism, happening.

“Disability benefits and out of work benefits are totally different…” says Paralympian Sophie Christiansen. “They have to get rid of the barriers we face to get into work like inaccessible travel. I’ve been left on a train countless times getting into work.” 👇 www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

“People are saying by cutting benefits it will incentivise a return to work but as a disabled person who works outside of being a Paralympian, I still have extra costs because I am disabled.” My exclusive in the Big Issue: www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

“the BBC have heard complaints that their Glasgow edition of Question Time featured no-one from Glasgow’s third largest party, the Scottish Greens. To rectify this we have invited Glasgow’s sole Reform UK councillor to appear on the next episode”

Paralympic champions have said the government’s planned cuts to disability benefits are “targeted”, “misunderstood” and won’t “solve the major issues”. My exclusive in The Big Issue🚨: www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

personally I think it's far more objectionable to refer to a pregnant 13-year-old as a 'woman' than to refer to a cis woman as a 'person', but what do I know

“Homophobia starts with heteronormative and patriarchal environments and ends when men’s football collectively educates itself on, and trains itself to challenge, the biases, beliefs and behaviours that perpetuate them.” More👇 evieashton.substack.com/p/why-mens-f...

I’ve been making my way through the Welfare Reform Bill and this paragraph on the gov.uk website is genuinely disgusting. Receiving a decent disability benefits rate “encourages sickness”, does it? Funny, I thought it just enabled severely ill and disabled people to eat.

“Homophobic and misogynistic language was then used to police these masculinity boundaries and discipline those who stepped outside them.” From my latest newsletter on why men’s football is homophobic.👇 evieashton.substack.com/p/why-mens-f...

It’s pride month. Yet many still think homophobia starts with a rogue, morally corrupt, gay-hating football fan and ends with them being banned from a stadium. Wrote about our collective misunderstanding of homophobia is and why it exists in men’s football.👇 evieashton.substack.com/p/why-mens-f...

“It’s all about inspiring the next generation of young girls in women’s sport, unless you’re trans.” Words on the upcoming big summer of women’s sport✍️👇 evieashton.substack.com/p/why-this-s...

The big summer of women’s sport is upon us. Will it be a turning point? Probably not. If sports bodies keep valuing growth, revenue and reputation over diversity, inclusivity and equity how can we expect tangible, systemic change? Words✍️ evieashton.substack.com/p/why-this-s...

Hahahaha, guess what team, IT'S NOT A BLOODY TREND! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Many sports journalists on the inside are trapped in double binds where no matter what they do, they risk becoming “complicit in helping those clubs achieve their own agenda, rather than working as the eyes and ears of the public”" Words from my latest👇 evieashton.substack.com/p/how-sports...

1/ Today on the 1st day of pride month and the day before Emily’s birthday the FA ban on trans women in football starts. This ban has broken my daughter in a way I didn’t think she could break. The pain and sorrow she felt at the end of her last game was soul destroying to witness.

Is sports journalism independent, objective, and serving the public interest? Or has it become a mouthpiece for sports clubs and bodies? Tackled these Qs in my latest✍️ evieashton.substack.com/p/how-sports...

UK Sport (inc Paddle UK) can't have it both ways. If we want great athletes, we have to invest in them. If they don't have rich parents, they need money from somewhere, and they can't have a regular job when they're honing their sport seven days a week for *checks notes* £16,000.

"From the legal advice we received, it was clear that as a sport we could not continue with transgender women playing in women's cricket without expecting significant legal challenge." - ECB Spokesperson From my latest ✍️ www.thecricketer.com/Topics/premi...

ECB Premier League umpire Em Dean is considering their future in cricket after ECB ban trans women from women’s cricket. Full interview here: www.thecricketer.com/Topics/premi...

ECB Premier League umpire Em Dean is considering their future in cricket after ECB ban trans women from women’s cricket. Full interview here: www.thecricketer.com/Topics/premi...

"She was also Gaza’s youngest influencer, offering practical survival tips for daily life under bombardment, such as advice on how to cook with improvised methods when there was no gas. 'I try to bring a bit of joy to the other children so that they can forget the war. '”

More than 100 of the UK’s most high-profile disabled people urge the Prime Minister to abandon the “inhumane and catastrophic plans to cut disability benefits”. My exclusive: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

I do not accept that my oppression is inherent to my biology. This is as true of my feminism as it is of my disability politics. My body does not oppress me.

What did you do during the genocide in Gaza? | Arwa Mahdawi www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...