BBC trolling us:

The BBC pundit Sharron Davies has joined forces with a leading human rights charity in accusing the national broadcaster of potentially casting a shadow over next month’s Sports Personality of the Year (Spoty) event by naming Barbra Banda as their women’s footballer of the year.

The BBC was the subject of widespread criticism on Tuesday after announcing that a player banned from the 2022 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations for elevated testosterone levels had received its coveted award.

See that will be why the Beeb did it. Feminist women must be trolled and punished and generally shoved around.

Now Davies, the former Olympic swimmer who worked as the poolside reporter for the BBC at this year’s Paris Olympic Games, has joined the charity Sex Matters, as well as former British distance runner Mara Yamauchi, British sailor Tracy Edwards, and the campaign group Fair Play For Women in sending a strongly worded letter to Alex Kay-Jelski, the BBC head of sport, and Stephen Mawhinney, the head of sports journalism.

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In their letter, Davies and her fellow signatories say: “Banda won [the BBC award] in a public vote, but BBC Sport owns the process and must own the outcome, since BBC Sport managed the creation of the shortlist, and BBC Sport promoted Banda’s nomination on social media.

“Banda is a player whose sex has been called into question. It’s been reported that Banda was withdrawn from a women’s tournament rather than face a sex test. Given the known issues around male athletes with disorders of sex development finding their way into women’s sport, it is disappointing that the BBC would actively promote someone whose eligibility to play in women’s sport is in question.”

Disappointing but all too predictable. The questionable eligibility is of course why the BBC chose that particular athlete.