British Olympic swimming hero and gender-critical campaigner Sharron Davies is set to become a Conservative peer.
Tory leader Kemi Badenoch will reportedly appoint the 62-year-old to the House of Lords alongside columnist Simon Heffer and Graham Edwards, the Tory party treasurer and mega-donor.
Ms Davies has become an outspoken advocate for women's rights in sport in recent years, amid concerns that transgender athletes self-identifying is a risk to sporting integrity.
She became involved in the debate after winning silver for Great Britain in the 400m individual medley at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, losing to East Germany's Petra Schneider who later admitted to taking testosterone as part of a state-sponsored doping programme.
After the landmark Supreme Court ruling earlier this year defining a woman as a biological female, Ms Davies wrote in the Daily Mail: 'Women and girls should never have had to fight for their right to play football, run, swim – whatever their choice of sport is – in a fair and safe way.
