Meet the Remainer lawyer trying to dismantle British sports’ transgender ban | The Telegraph

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Until a fortnight ago, the closest Jolyon Maugham got to sporting notoriety was clubbing a fox to death with a baseball bat. But that will all change if the crusading KC’s Good Law Project succeeds in overturning a ban imposed on those born male playing in women’s sport.

Almost two weeks ago the Maugham-led GLP announced it had begun legal action against the England and Wales Cricket Board over the latter’s transgender participation policy. The threatened lawsuit is the latest attention-grabbing case taken on by the GLP, which was founded by Maugham, an arch-Remainer, in January 2017 in the wake of the Brexit referendum.

Best known for defeating Boris Johnson’s government at the Supreme Court over the then prime minister’s 2019 prorogation of parliament, the group is now determined to overturn the same court’s ruling that only those born female should be deemed women under the 2010 Equality Act. A legal battle, that has already resulted in Maugham becoming locked in a toxic feud with JK Rowling, has now spilt over into the world of sport, in which the ECB was one of several governing bodies to respond to April’s judgment by the UK’s highest court by banning trans women from female-only competitions.

Maugham told Telegraph Sport the GLP was suing the ECB on behalf of an unnamed trans cricketer in what he proclaimed was a “test case” for the whole of British sport, warning that the Football Association was next in his sights.

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