I think this is a lot more significant than people think. It’s not only that males are allowed to compete against females, it’s not only that their respective female competitors are not allowed to mention their disappointment at losing to a biological male - it’s a gateway for worse things to come.

Eventually, spectators will be forcibly removed from venues for not cheering the right athlete or booing a trans athlete will be considered a potential threat to their personal safety and reported to officials and police. These spectators will be named and shamed in the media.

People may laugh at McKinnon’s audacity due to his absurdity, but if sports organisations find trans athletes feel persecuted by their competitors and teammates, which they will, females will be sidelined, fined, ridiculed and ostracised from their respective sports.

If women athletes don’t quickly unite and oppose these new rules favouring trans athletes, what makes female athletes think they’ll have any ability to rollback the policies made to hinder their potential in the future? I can’t see how female participation under these conditions enhance women’s sport? Refusing to compete against transwomen is the only way forward.