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Yet another case for SheWon.com. Not just any case, one where a grown ass white dude was allowed to compete against an 11 year old girl of color in the name of inclusiveness.

By Amy Hamm February 22, 2024

A trans-identified male is set to compete against women as the reigning Women’s Snooker Champion at the English Women’s Snooker Championship on May 24 in Walsall, UK. Jamie Hunter, 27, became the top women’s player following a semifinal victory against a young girl last year.

Hunter first rose to prominence during the English Women’s Snooker Champion finals in 2023 after he came out victorious against Mary Talbot-Deegan, finishing 3-1. Hunter had managed to make it to the finals after he beat out Ellise Scott, an 11-year-old rising star in the snooker world, taking 2-0 against her in the semifinal grouping. The event had been Scott’s debut in the tournament, and, prior to her match against Hunter, she had achieved three match victories against experienced female opponents.

Hunter had been participating in women’s cue sports since 2021, just one year after he “came out” as transgender.

Prior to transitioning, Hunter played in a mixed-sex amateur league for five years. Speaking with Snooker Zone in 2021, Hunter admitted that he had no intention of competing professionally until he discovered that there was a women’s tour.

“Until this year, cue sports was just a hobby, something I done once, maybe twice a week, but now finding out about the Women’s snooker tour, I believe that will change,” he said at the time. “They make out as if I played snooker as a man, I was rubbish, so decided to do it in the women’s instead. I changed my gender for my wellbeing and my life, not for anything else.”

Hunter received significant backlash after his 2022 US Women’s Open win, when former women’s world champion Maria Catalano criticized the policies enabling males to compete against females. In an interview with The Sportsman, Catalano argued that women’s snooker should exclude males from female categories, as some rugby leagues have, to ensure fairness for women. 

“We have fought so hard for our rights in the past – myself, Reanne Evans and others got people to write letters to allow us to play in leagues and clubs that banned women. I don’t believe that women can compete against men on a level playing field in sport. We are wired differently, we think differently. We are mentally different,” said Catalano. 

The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) publishes a mixed sex international ranking of players. The highest-ranking female on their current list, Mink Nutcharut, is listed at 119.

In response to the criticism of his wins against women, Hunter has framed the backlash as transphobia.

“Everybody’s human. Regardless of what choices you make. You should treat everybody with respect,” said Hunter speaking to a BBC journalist last fall. Bizarrely, Hunter was interviewed while he sat in a gaming chair in a dark bedroom — which he refers to as “the dark girl cave.” The room has a transgender pride flag pinned up on the wall behind him.

The upcoming English Women’s Snooker Championship is set for May 24, 2024. It is being organized by the English Partnership for Snooker and Billiards (EPSB), which is the national governing body for the sport in England. They describe their goal as creating a “structured coaching environment that will inspire all regardless of gender, ability, or ethnicity to fulfil their potential in our sport.” 

The EPSB has a diversity, equity, and inclusion policy with a lengthy section on discrimination, including a ban on any “condition, rule or practice [that]… particularly disadvantages people who share a protected characteristic.” As for their list of protected characteristics, the EPSB includes “gender, gender identity, marital status, sexual orientation, race, colour, nationality, religion, age, disability, HIV positivity, working pattern, caring responsibilities, trade union activity or political beliefs.”  

The English Women’s Championship is set to take place at the Landywood Snooker Club in Walsall, UK, on May 24.

This is not the first time a male has dominated women’s cue sports, sparking backlash from players and fans.

Last November, a female pool player refused to compete against a trans-identified male opponent at a women’s championship in Wales. Lynne Pinches received an outpouring of support as video began to circulate showing her walking away from the table after being matched to play against Chris Haynes.

Days later, two more female pool players refused to compete against Haynes in solidarity with Pinches during the Ultimate Pool tournament in Blackpool, UK.

In January, Pinches headed an effort to launch a lawsuit against the World Eightball Pool Federation (WEPF) and Ultimate Pool Group (UPG), accusing the governing bodies of subjecting women “to direct sex discrimination and harassment on the grounds of sex.”

What does he have to gain from this?

ENTRY FEES AND PRIZE MONEY

Entry: £30

Winner: £200 

Runner-Up: £100 

Semi-Finalists: £50

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Sunday Best

Walsall - 2023

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Lisa Walsall Hull, 2024

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Tuning an excellent Knight K20 dating from 1959 in Pelsall, Walsall

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a closed case by swissrolli Via Flickr: Enlarge This Photo

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[mystery-of-arkham-asylum]

Today is Black Country Day in my part of England. This is the 10th year that it is being celebrated. The Black County is a small area in the West Midlands  made up of Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton.

The Black Country gained its name in the mid nineteenth century due to the smoke from the many thousands of ironworking foundries and forges plus also the working of the shallow and 30ft thick coal seams.

(A couple maps below to show the area. Even found one that shows some of the famous, to us at least, locations in the area.)

July 14th was chosen as the date for Black Country Day due to its historical importance, as it was on this day in 1712 that the first steam engine was invented.

The feat of engineering was built in the Black Country, an area that played a huge part in the industrial revolution.

The flag features a chain to represent the manufacturing heritage of the area whilst the upright triangular shape in the background recalls the iconic glass cones and iron furnaces that featured in the architectural landscape of the area. The red and black colours recall the famous description of the Black Country by Elihu Burritt, the American Consul to Birmingham in 1862, that it was "black by day and red by night" owing to the smoke and fires of industry.

Enjoy this silly little song that has been living rent free in my head for years. It shows how we say some things in the Black Country.

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[kappelfeldman]

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#Walsall #west midlands

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[124daisies]

Trolleybus Terminus, Walsall, 1969 (Lindsay Bridge)

#1960s #walsall #bus & coach stations #trolleybus #woolworths

[weaversweek]

"Merry Xmas everybody" - Slade

1973 Written by Noddy Holder and Jim Lea

IIIIITTTS CHRIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSS! in Let's Do It, my personal favourite singles from 1954-76.

The biggest band of the early 1970s, Slade had six massive number one singles in three years. Their manager Chas Chandler said that the group might try and capture the festive market, he'd seen how much success Mud had had with "Lonely this Christmas".

The band were unconvinced, until Jim Lea took a shower and had some good ideas. He merged this with a very different tune the band had come up with many years earlier. Explains why "Merry Xmas everybody" sounds like two songs bolted together - it literally is, Jim's smooth verses and Noddy's raucous chorus. The original words: "Buy me a rocking chair to watch the world go by, buy me a looking glass, I'll look you in the eye". Er, quite.

Although recorded in June 1973, it would prove prophetic: by the time of release, an economic depression had set on, the three-day week loomed, and everyone moped about. "Look to the future now, it's only just begun."

An instant classic, and it's remained a hit in the years since - every year it would get re-pressed, sell a few thousand copies, and get lots of airplay in the week before Christmas. Since the singles charts moved to downloads and fabricated streaming, there's been no stopping this song. Noddy's pension scheme now earns him over £500,000 (€550.000) a year in royalties.

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[therealefl]

Walsall Manager Makes Goalkeeper Admission

Walsall Manager Makes Goalkeeper Admission

Walsall boss Mat Sadler has praised starting goalkeeper Owen Evans with a tag of “He is one of the best in the division, and the one above” after speaking ahead of this weekend’s game. Evans picked up his first clean sheet of the season this past weekend following a 1-0 win over Colchester United, however, despite it coming six games into the campaign, the Saddlers’ boss sees the quality Evans…

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[wally-b-feed]

Anthony Fineran (B 1981), Yates Han Walsall, 2023

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[pianotunerwolverhampton]

Tuning a 'Brooklyn Piano Co' Upright Piano dating from the 1890s. Sold originally by 'H Taylor & Son'

Tuning at Castle School, Bloxwich, Walsall.

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