The Clapton CFC Women’s First Team kicked off the new league season today with just nine players on the pitch at the start.

The two other positions were 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.

#footbALLwithouttransisnothing