British endurance racing car driver Charlie Martin has backed trans inclusion in sports during an appearance on a BBC radio programme alongside outspoken “gender critic” Sharron Davies.

In an episode of Across the Red Line on Radio 4 on Thursday (15 August), former Olympic swimmer Davies argued that transgender women shouldn’t be involved in women’s sport.

Martin, who made history in 2020 as the first trans driver in “one of motor racing’s toughest endurance races”, the Adac Total 24hr Nürburgring, responded by saying transgender athletes were not a threat and had been taking part in sports for “a hundred years”, adding: “Trans men were taking part in the 1920s, this is not a new phenomenon.

“The International Olympic Committee has allowed trans people to compete since 2004, and in that time not a single trans person has won a medal, broken a record, or dominated.

Martin came out as trans publicly in 2018, at a time when she said there was “no LGBTQ+ visibility in the sport at all”.

She went on to say: “Trans people make up one per cent of the population… the idea that trans people will dominate sport against the other 99 per cent of people in the world is highly improbable.”