e Sports, the “LGBTIQ+ inclusion charity working to make sports a welcoming place for everyone”.
This charity publicly opposed moves to ban transgender women from female competitions, including the FA’s new rules barring trans players from women’s and girls’ football leagues.
Some members of the cast were said to be uncomfortable with Ms Edwards’ positions on women’s rights, sport and her opposition to gender ideology – the belief that self-identification rather than biological sex defines womanhood.
This led to some trouble behind the scenes in the days before a group of cast members made their on-stage appeal, and there were concerns about a potential protest or “nastiness”.
Ms Edwards said: “They had not done it before, or on other dates. It was for my benefit.”
She added: “They are in a little bubble, and I don’t think they think for themselves. They are not activists; they are sheep.
“The irony of spending 90 minutes singing and dancing in celebration of women fighting for their rights in sport, only to trample all over those rights at the end, is off the scale.”
Well said.
Heather Binning, the founder of the gender-critical Women’s Rights Network, said: “Tracy Edwards is an icon for women who proved her mettle in the male-dominated world of sailing with an all-woman crew, astonishing many, and celebrated by many more.
“To use and exploit that achievement is an insult to women everywhere, and particularly to Tracy herself.
“To try to score woke points by making a statement in support of a so-called ‘trans’ project is quite beyond belief.”
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