Your article on the employment crisis in the sector (HCM 3 2022, page 54 or www.hcmmag.com/staffing) raised valid points about what needs to be done to address staff shortages. I particularly applaud Jo Cherrett’s call for an honest conversation about the living wage. This especially applies to swimming teachers. Two members of my family have…
Olympic medalist Sharron Davies speaks out on giving hormone blockers to young girls as it’s ‘difficult to reverse 5 o’clock shadow’ Ms Davies questioned whether children not old enough to decide whether they can drive or drink alcohol should be able to choose whether to be “sterile for the rest of their life” Olympic medalist…
Who is Wiltshire resident Sharron Davies MBE and what Olympic medals has she won? She’s been in the news for her comments about transgender swimmer Lia Thomas Olympic medallist Sharron Davies has hit out at a Labour MP who defended a transgender swimmer. Davies accused former women’s and equalities spokesman and current Warrington North MP…
Olympic swimming star Sharron Davies and Paralympic gold medallist Stephanie Millward join Chorley mum’s water safety crusade. Water safety campaigner Beckie Ramsay has met with two swimming stars as she prepares to take her crusade to the Department for Education. Beckie’s son Dylan died aged 13 in July 2011 after getting into difficulties swimming in…
Former Olympic swimmer SHARRON DAVIES reveals she’d ration her own HRT supplies as UK grapples with shortage. Every day, since I started taking HRT five years ago, I follow the same simple routine. In the morning, I apply two pumps of oestrogen gel to my thigh followed by a pump in the evening. I get…
Former Olympian Sharron Davies has compared trans athletes with doping cheats and claimed the inclusion of trans athletes has resulted in women being “discriminated” against. The former athlete from Plymouth made the comments on LBC following American swimmer Lia Thomas’ landmark victory in the women’s 500-yard freestyle at the United States college championships. The 22-year-old…
I don’t want trans athletes excluded but Lia Thomas has proven we must have fair competition for females – bodies do sport, not feelings… No rules can reverse the advantage of male puberty. When Lia Thomas competed as a man she was outside the top 500 of the NCAA Having transitioned, she has become the…
A number of Olympic stars have praised Boris Johnson for diving into the row about transgender athletes after he said biological males shouldn’t compete in women’s sports. Speaking to broadcasters during a hospital visit on Wednesday, the Prime Minister said he was “immensely sympathetic” to people wanting to change their gender but that trans women…
Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies leads praise for PM as he says ‘trans women should NOT be competing in female events’ and questions children’s ability to make gender choices – amid Tory row over conversion therapy ban. The Prime minister said parents must have ‘involvement at the very least’ in their child’s gender decision His intervention…
As featured in Bath Life, Issue 466, 25th March – 8 April 2022 A whole host of celebrity guests donned hard hats and high vis vests to lend their support to the Cleveland Pools Trust’s Crowdfunder campaign in support of ongoing restoration work of Britain’s oldest outdoor swimming pool. Kris Marshall, Jonathan Dimbleby, Sharron Davies,…