A pair of male pool gamers who establish as females confronted one another at a championship match in the UK.
Harriet Haynes confronted Lucy Smith on the Final Pool Girls’s Professional Sequence Occasion 2 at Robin Park Leisure Centre in Wigan, after the trans gamers beat 4 feminine opponents every, Fox Information reported.
Haynes led 6-3 early within the event, however Smith battled again to just one down. Regardless of the comeback, although, Haynes ended up successful all of it.
Regardless, each trans gamers tore via their feminine opponents this season. Smith gained 85 of his 113 matches and 62 % of 848 frames since 2021. Hayes had an identical successful file, with a .750 successful proportion in 241 matches and 61 % of frames earlier than coming into this week’s event, Fox Information stated.
The European Pocket Billiard Federation (EPBF) opened up its feminine classes to males who say they’re transgender girls. Consequently, it authorised Harriet Haynes, who claimed to have “transitioned” to a feminine in 2014 on the age of 23. The World Eightball Pool Federation (WEPF) additionally moved to permit transgender gamers.
Nevertheless, the WEPF introduced that the coverage was underneath assessment and, in August 2023, introduced that it will solely permit these “born feminine” to play within the girls’s class. Regardless of that change, the WEPF reversed itself and pushed out a rule stating that any transgender one who supposedly transitioned 4 years earlier than competing may play as a girl.
Hayes has stirred controversy for a number of years. In 2024, Irish pool champion Kim O’Brien pulled out of the European Pool Championships after officers allowed Hayes to compete within the girls’s class.
Final yr was not the primary time a feminine participant refused to face Haynes.
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