The UK’s Women’s Pool Championship is so woke, it woke any representation by actual women right out of the finals.
Both finalists, Harriet Haynes and Lucy Smith, are biological males who “identify” as women.
Haynes finished the 2024 season as the top-ranked women’s player in the Ultimate Pool Pro Series and appears on the way to defending that title in 2025. Haynes also finished as the top-ranked player in 2022 and finished second in 2023. Lucy Smith finished sixth in 2024 and fifth in 2023.
The winner of the event receives 1,800 pounds (about $2,320) and second place gets 900 pounds (about $1,160), according to the Ultimate Pool website. The rest of the top finishers (they pay a total of 16 places) receive 2,700 pounds COMBINED. That means that Haynes and Smith will receive as much money as the 14 women they defeated.
BREAKING
Two men will face each other for a women’s championship title at the Ultimate Pool Women’s Pro Series Event 2 tonight in Wigan, UK.
Harriet Haynes and Lucy Smith, both trans-identified males, beat all female competitors to take the spots in the women’s final event. pic.twitter.com/CNrfPuWEB7
— REDUXX (@ReduxxMag) April 6, 2025
While biological men might not appear to have an obvious physical advantage over women, as seen in track and field, tennis, and other sports, one X user noted, the men are “taller, longer reach, fingers bigger for a bridge when balls are close together, the need for a frame to take a shot isn’t as stable for women as a man who doesn’t need it – the men can do it without.”
There is a real chance of two men playing in the final of the women’s Ultimate Pool tournament at 8-45 tonight.
Lucy Smith = man
Harriet Haynes = man
As @PinchesLynne told me today – the men are taller, longer reach, fingers bigger for a bridge when balls are close together,… pic.twitter.com/WuxVrm0BqR
— Jean Hatchet (@JeanHatchet) April 6, 2025
The travesty did not go unaddressed. A group of protestors showed calling for women’s sports to be saved.
At Ultimate Pool women’s pro series. The moment we made sure Harriet Haynes (a man pretending to be a woman) left the pool tournament because he couldn’t stand women from @WRN_Manchester and @twelve0fiveUK telling him he’s a man and shouldn’t be playing. #HesAMan… pic.twitter.com/MedX6qCGq1
— Jean Hatchet (@JeanHatchet) April 6, 2025
