Severe security considerations have been raised after a person in his 50s was allegedly noticed taking part in alongside teenage ladies for a number of ladies’s soccer groups in Wales.
The problem was raised by Wales Girls’s Rights Community, which mentioned it had been approached by a spectator who mentioned a person “in his 50s or 60s was taking part in on a group that included teenage ladies and younger ladies”.
The ladies’s rights group warned that “it wasn’t the primary event both.”
In accordance with the group, the person had been seen taking part in for a number of Welsh ladies’s soccer and strolling soccer groups.
Feminine gamers on opposing groups will not be believed to have given “knowledgeable consent” to play in opposition to him, Wales Girls’s Rights Community mentioned.
The group confirmed it had raised the matter to the Welsh FA, the Welsh Authorities and Sport Wales as a “safeguarding concern”.
It warned that there’s a “considerably elevated danger of damage to ladies and ladies” after they come up in opposition to male opponents.
“If this male has accessed feminine altering rooms, showers and bathrooms that is a further clear safeguarding danger,” it added.
In accordance with the group, the person had been seen taking part in for a number of Welsh ladies’s soccer and strolling soccer groups
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Wales Girls’s Rights Community wrote on social media: “It’s 15 months because the Supreme Courtroom clarified that in legislation the phrases ladies and woman apply solely to the feminine intercourse.
“A ladies’s soccer group shouldn’t embrace males. There aren’t any excuses.
“We now have made this very clear to FA Wales on many events. (The FAs of England and Scotland amended their insurance policies in 2025).”
The group continued: “Whereas it is completely satisfied to spend public cash to develop the sport, FA Wales is surprisingly proof against providing those self same taxpayers truthful and secure sport for females.
Wales Girls’s Rights Community confirmed that they had raised the matter to the Welsh FA
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“FAW obstinately refuses to do the one factor that may safe the ladies’s recreation is for girls and ladies solely – observe the legislation and make sure that no males play within the feminine recreation.
“FA Wales we’re lengthy into further time on this matter. Insurance policies should be modified now.
“No extra ladies and ladies needs to be pressured to play on groups that embrace males as a result of FA Wales refuses to observe the legislation of the land.”
Reform UK Wales chief Dan Thomas has raised the difficulty with Welsh Minister for Tradition and Sport Heledd Fychan.
‘No extra ladies and ladies needs to be pressured to play on groups that embrace males,’ the group wrote
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In a letter penned to the Plaid Cymru minister, Mr Thomas has requested whether or not the Welsh Authorities can be investigating the difficulty and requested for clarification surrounding safeguarding assessments and steerage to ladies’s groups.
“The problem is clearly one in every of vital public curiosity and has implications for safeguarding, truthful competitors, and the continued participation of girls and ladies in sport,” he wrote.
“It’s important that considerations raised by individuals and marketing campaign teams are taken severely and addressed brazenly.”
GB Information has approached the Welsh FA and Welsh Authorities for remark.
