Two transgender gamers Lucy Smith and Harriet Haynes confronted off within the last of a girls’s pool match championship within the UK, defeating each feminine opponent
Within the UK, two transgender athletes overcame their feminine counterparts in a girls’s pool match title.
On the Robin Park Leisure Centre in Wigan, Harriet Haynes and Lucy Smith confronted off within the Final Pool Ladies’s Professional Sequence Occasion 2.
Who’s transgender pool participant Lucy Smith who competed in Final Pool Ladies’s Professional Sequence Occasion 2 2025 last
Every contestant superior to the championship match by defeating 4 feminine opponents.
Though Haynes’ matches had been all fairly tight, Smith dominated the bracket’s opening spherical. Smith defeated Vicki Lomax 7-1 after defeating Jane Mitchell 7 frames to three within the opening spherical.
At one level within the championship match, Haynes had a 6-3 lead, however Smith rallied to trim the hole to at least one. Nonetheless, Haynes managed to carry onto the win.
Haynes emerged victorious within the last with a rating of 8-6.
Earlier than making it to the ultimate, Smith had received 62% of 848 frames and 85 of 113 video games since 2021, based on Final Pool Group. Earlier than going through Smith, Haynes had received 61% of the frames and had a.750 profitable proportion in 241 lifetime matches.
Haynes’ path to the title included wins over Megan Proctor and Mary Talbot whereas Smith reached the ultimate by defeating Jane Mitchell 7-3 within the first spherical and Vicki Lomax 7-1, earlier than later knocking out Kirsty-Lee Davies and Danielle Randle.
Lucy who’s a organic male now identifies as a girl and competes in feminine pool tournaments.
Harriet Haynes headed to defend her title in 2025 after ending the 2024 season because the top-ranked girls’s participant within the Final Pool Professional Sequence. Together with ending first in 2022, Haynes additionally positioned second in 2023. Lucy Smith got here in fifth place in 2023 and sixth in 2024.
In response to the Final Pool web site, the prize for first place is 1,800 kilos (about $2,320), whereas the prize for second place is 900 kilos (round $1,160). 2,700 kilos are awarded to the remaining high finishers (a complete of 16 locations are paid). Final Pool Professional Sequence gamers Harriet Haynes and Lucy Smith will so get the identical amount of cash because the 14 women they defeated.
In response to their web site, transgender athletes are permitted to take part within the sport with no limitations beneath the foundations of the World Eightball Pool Federation (WEPF) and the English Pool Affiliation. Since December 2023, the English Pool Affiliation’s bylaws have been being reviewed.
Solely people who had been “born feminine” shall be permitted to take part within the sport, based on a WEPF announcement made in August 2023.
“We perceive that this resolution could immediate questions and discussions inside our sport. We need to emphasize that our dedication to upholding the values of sportsmanship, inclusivity, and adherence to regulatory requirements stays unwavering,” the WEPF stated on the time.
Nonetheless, the WEPF revoked that safety in October of that yr. Transgender opponents had been permitted so long as they supplied documentation of diminished testosterone ranges and had recognized as feminine for not less than 4 years.
Whereas in pool, the distinction between women and men may not be as pronounced as in different, extra bodily demanding sports activities, males do nonetheless have some organic benefits. The chief concern being that anybody who has gone by male puberty could have, on common, a a lot wider wingspan and be a lot taller than somebody who hasn’t as they’ve an extended attain, and lots of them are taller, making it simpler for males to make photographs with better energy and pace.
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