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@ HebrideanUltraTerfHecate
2025-05-10 09:31:27
The Free Speech Union - freespeechunion.org's post
🚨 BREAKING: Teen footballer Cerys Vaughan has WON her appeal after being banned for asking a bearded trans player: “Are you a man?”
The FA’s case against her was thrown out after a damning ruling exposed a flawed and unfair process — one that left 17-year-old Cerys in tears.
We’re proud to say: we made her victory possible. The Free Speech Union funded Cerys’s legal team, including a top-tier barrister, and supported her family through months of Kafkaesque disciplinary proceedings. It’s thanks to that support that she was able to fight back — and win.
Following the Supreme Court’s ruling that “woman” means biological female under the Equality Act, the FA has now U-turned, scrapping its transgender inclusion policy: from June, males will be barred from the female game. That’s the right decision — but it comes too late for girls like Cerys, who were punished under speech codes that should never have existed. Female players in single-sex football leagues should never have been forced to compete against men, given how much stronger, faster and more physically aggressive male players are, on average. For a teenage girl to receive a six-game ban simply for asking whether an opposing player was a man was a grotesque injustice — and we’re proud to have helped her get the decision overturned.
Cerys is one of nearly 4,000 people we've supported since 2020 — people who got into trouble for saying something perfectly lawful.
What we do is only possible because of the incredible support we receive from our members and donors. Join us and help fight the next battle:
🔗 freespeechunion.org/join Read Cerys’s exclusive interview with the Telegraph here: 🔗 https://freespeechunion.org/im-the-girl-banned-for.../