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Pool player forfeits final rather than play trans woman
Harriet Haynes, right, picked up the trophy after winning by default
A female pool player was cheered by the crowd after she forfeited the final of a national tournament in protest at having to play a transgender woman.
Lynne Pinches, 50, was supported by spectators after she packed up her cue and told the referee that she would not compete against Harriet Haynes in the final of the Ladies Champion of Champions in Denbighshire, northeast Wales. Haynes reacted with confusion before picking up the trophy by default.
Pinches told The Daily Telegraph that walking out on Saturday was the “toughest thing I’ve ever had to do in the game in my life”.
She said: “I have played 30 years and I’ve never even conceded so much as a frame, never mind a match.
“This was only
