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Female snooker player banned by local leagues for gender slams rules as 'ridiculous and quite upsetting'
A female snooker player says she felt ‘abandoned’ after being banned from her local league due to her gender.
Although she is ranked third in the World Women’s Snooker rankings, 30-year-old Rebecca Kenna was stopped from playing in two fixtures.
Those clubs, in Keighley, West Yorkshire, stopped her from playing due to a ‘men’s only’ policy.
And despite the league’s protestations that ‘there’s nothing we can do’, Mrs Kenna is keen to see a dramatic rule change to end the discrimination.
She told BBC’s The One Show: “To be told you can’t play the sport you love because of your gender is ridiculous and it’s quite upsetting.
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“When we were playing [these teams] I would just have to stay at home.
“I think we should make it so these ‘men-only’ clubs are not allowed into the league if they are not going to let women play.”
Kenna added she has witnessed similar gender discrimination in other parts of the country, although it does not appear as though the punishment she proposed is going to be dealt.
Alan Speak, a snooker league committee member, said: “If we lose two of these clubs [with the men-only policies] we would lose four teams and we can’t afford to lose four teams otherwise we would have no league.”
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