Women pool players have taken the first step towards launching a landmark lawsuit over rules forcing them to play against transgender women.
Telegraph Sport can disclose that lawyers acting for four complainants have submitted a “letter before claim” to the World Eightball Pool Federation and Ultimate Pool Group, accusing the governing bodies of subjecting those born female to “direct sex discrimination and harassment on the grounds of sex”.
The news comes days after Telegraph Sport disclosed that Lia Thomas, the swimmer at the centre of one of sport’s biggest trans storms, had been mounting a secret legal challenge against the ban on her competing in elite women’s races – including at the Olympics.