Protesters outside BBC Scotland as Barbra Banda wins "women’s footballer of the year”.

The Scotsman

Barbra Banda wins BBC women’s footballer award despite gender controversy Protest outside BBC Scotland Glasgow about the decision to include Barbra Banda as the winner of  BBC ‘Sports Personality of the Year’ women’s footballer of the year”.

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00:00Save women's sports! Save women's sports!

00:13I'm Alison Ware from For Women Scotland Sports and we're here protesting at BBC

00:18Scotland in Glasgow against the BBC's consistent use of the term she for male

00:26athletes in female sports and we're particularly protesting at the moment and the

00:31award of the Women's Footballer of the Year to Barbara Banda who is a male

00:36footballer with the DSD. Women deserve their own fair sports, women deserve

00:42to compete in their own category. We have categories for a reason, these categories

00:46are physical, we wouldn't allow adults to compete in children's categories, we

00:53wouldn't allow able-bodied athletes to compete in para categories and women

00:57deserve their own fair and safe sport in their own categories.

01:01Save women's sports! Save women's sports!

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