Tracy Edwards, the first woman to captain an all-female crew in the Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race, criticized the musical 'Maiden Voyage' after performers requested donations to support Pride Sports at the end. Edwards, who has opposed transgender women in women's sports, was in the audience for this specific fundraising appeal. She described the performers as "sheep" rather than activists, expressing disappointment that the fundraising contradicted the show's theme of women's rights in sports. Future donations may support her own charity for girls' educational programs.
"The irony of spending 90 minutes singing and dancing in celebration of women fighting for their rights in sport, only to trample all over those rights at the end, is off the scale."
"I will never understand why some young women are so ready to throw away the rights we all worked so hard for."
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