Women’s football match cancelled after trans goalkeeper cruelly targeted on social media

A women’s football match has been called off after their transgender goalkeeper, Blair Hamilton, was targeted online by former Olympian Sharron Davies and others.

Sutton United’s game at Ebbsfleet United, in the London & South East Regional Football League Premier Division was postponed just hours before it was scheduled to start on Sunday (1 September), with the club issuing a statement on its website.

The postponement came in the wake of a backlash against trans manager Lucy Clark signing 34-year-old transgender goalkeeper Blair Hamilton.

Clark was the first trans manager to be hired in the top five divisions of English women’s football, following her appointment in January, and has previously been honoured by the National Football Museum in Manchester.

Shortly after the keeper arrived

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