Norfolk pool player in legal fight after winning battle to protect women's sport |
Lynne Pinches, from Norwich, has launched a £30,000 claim for discrimination through the county courts against the Ultimate Pool Group (UPG), which has banned her from taking part in its matches.
The match promoter has vowed the case will be "vigorously defended to its conclusion".
Ms Pinches, 53, claims the decision to ban her was discriminatory and motivated by her previous campaign to exclude transwomen - biological men who identify as women - from the female category of its pool tournaments on the grounds of fairness.
She was banned following a row which happened after she wore a bodycam at a tournament she was attending as a spectator, intending to watch her 11-year-old son Harry play in April.
Ms Pinches maintains she told officials at the event in Wigan, Lancs, that she was wearing a camera because she had been advised to do so by police after suffering abuse over her stance regarding trans players.
But after offering to remove the device and switching it off, she claims she was expelled from the hall and later told she would be banned from competing in future events after she queried a report by the organisers about the incident .
"I was told unless I put it in writing that this matter about me being removed in April was closed I'd be banned," she said.
"I was banned because I challenged the reason I was removed, so they're saying it's my fault I'm banned."
Norwich pool player Lynne Pinches (Image: Chris Bishop)
Ms Pinches is now taking legal action in a........