The Clapton CFC Women’s First Team have kicked off their first two league games this season with just nine players on the pitch at the start.

The two other positions have been left deliberately vacant at kick off to represent the two FA bans – on women’s football as a whole in 1921 and on trans players’ involvement in football in 2025.

We hope that other allies may adopt this small but visible gesture and we would love to hear ideas for other forms of protest.

On matchday and every other day, let trans people live.