Former Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies has said she believes the transgender argument is "damaging women’s sports" and risks making children "patients for life".
This follows a newly created 'Declaration for Biological Reality', where it's supporters are expressing growing concerns about the impact that gender identity ideology is having on our society.
Davies, who is one of the signatories on the declaration, said she genuinely believes we're "not doing anybody any favours at the moment by just not telling the truth".
Speaking to Mark Dolan on GB News, she added: "The truth is that human beings cannot change their biological sex. There is a difference."
Sharron Davies said human beings 'cannot change their biological sex'
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Davies continued: "“There are only two gametes – a male and a female gamete – and you need one of each type for us to reproduce.
“Even people with the differences of sexual development are still male or female."
Discussing the issue of transgender children and the debate around instilling transgender ideology in children, Davies branded it "cruel" to tell young children that they're "born in the wrong body".
Davies added that it would "line them up for the rest of their life to never be able to be what they're aspiring to be".
This comes amid the latest transgender sport debate to emerge from America, after a male athlete on a girls' high school field hockey team injured an opposing player in Massachusetts.
The ball, hit by the player who identifies as female, struck the girl in the face and knocked two of her teeth out.
Davies reacted to the incident, fuming: "From a sports perspective, I just cannot get my head around what we are doing to women's sport.
“We’ve got six contact sports in this country - combat sports, these are fighting sports, where it is self ID."
A male athlete on a girls' hockey team injured a female player in Massachusetts
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Davies continued: "We've got 50 males that identify into women's football at the moment, and we know that women have six times as many knee injuries, they have a different Q-angle, we’re biologically made different.
"And the whole reason we have women's sport is to give the equality to females that males have had enjoyed for decades that women have been constantly just playing catch up.
"So, I come very much from the point of wanting fair sport and for that to be based on biology.
"We need to be able to have faith in our institutions that they're actually representing all of us - and it doesn't feel that way at the moment."
