‘WHO’D have thought that in 2026 we are supposed to be grateful for the headline . . . women sport to be kept for women! Well lucky ol’ us!’ Sharron Davies, the feisty biology believer, tweeted on Friday morning.

She was right to lace her gratitude with a touch of irony.  However I cannot have been the only person thanking God when I heard the news on Thursday of a sanity breakthrough at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that, we can only pray, will finally see an end to men competing as women in women’s sport. The news that provoked Sharron’s tweet was that Olympic chiefs have finally blocked transgender athletes from all women’s sports after announcing mandatory sex testing under new rules. After years of lobbying and campaigning for biological reality and fairness.

The IOC has finally come to its senses. As the Daily Mail reported, a once-in-a-lifetime SRY gene test will help to ‘protect fairness, safety and integrity in the female category’. It ‘slams the door firmly shut on transgender athletes such as Laurel Hubbard’, forcing those with a ‘Disorder of Sex Development’ to prove that they do not benefit from the anabolic and/or performance-enhancing effects of testosterone.

For years now we have been forced into an officially-driven world of make-believe whereby a man who ‘identifies’ as a woman was allowed to compete and win in female competitive sports – an insanity which culminated, for me anyway, in seeing the Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, who has high levels of testosterone, punching her female rival so hard that she won the women’s welterweight gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in just 46 seconds.

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Who’d have thought that in 2026 we are supposed to be grateful for the headline… women sport to be kept for women! Well lucky ol’us!

— Sharron Davies HoL MBE (@sharrond62) March 27, 2026