Response 480279850

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3. What is your name?

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Alison

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6. Are you completing this call for views on behalf of yourself, or someone else?

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9. Please indicate your agreement with the following statement, from 1 = strongly disagree, to 5 = strongly agree

1 - Strongly disagree 2 - Disagree 3 - Neither agree or disagree 4 - Agree 5 - Strongly agree
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Dealing with menstruation and my developing body, particularly when my breasts developed (quite well endowed).

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14. What issues, if any, affect women and girls taking part in community sport and physical activity?

Please provide your response in the box.
Access to female attire, such as suitable sports bras, managing the sport around menstrual cycle/pregnancy/childbirth, being treated as secondary to male sport.

15. How might these challenges be overcome?

Please provide your response in the box.
Ensuring suitable attire is available. Providing funding equal to that available to male athletes and sports.

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16. What issues, if any, affect women and girls taking part in elite sport?

Please provide your response in the box.
Similar to community sports, but funding is a bigger issue here.

17. How might these challenges be overcome?

Please provide your response in the box.
Funding and more analysis of how sport affects females.

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18. What additional issues, if any, affect women and girls from marginalised groups taking part in sport or physical activity?

Please provide your response in the box.
If you allow males into female sports and changing rooms because they say they identify as women, you will drive females out of their own category. What is the point of sex-segregated sports if some males are allowed to compere in the female category? Women's safety and dignity are paramount and sport is meaningless without fairness. If this is allowed at community level, there will ultimately be no female elite athletes.

19. How might these challenges be overcome?

Please provide your response in the box.
Ensure that female sports remain wholly female.

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20. Do you have any further comments?

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Females need to be given equality of opportunity to males, in terms of support and funding. And the female category absolutely must be protected.