Sailing legend targeted by trans activists

Tracy Edwards won international fame as the skipper of the first all-female crew to sail around the world in the 1989-00 Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race. Their achievement on the 58-foot Maiden is now the basis for the musical production Maiden Voyage, and with Edwards in attendance, she endured an unexpected confrontation.

A young actress wearing the pink shorts that Edwards’ crew made famous read from a prepared statement promoting a charity that supports biological males competing in female categories. “I felt like I was having an out-of-body experience, as if somebody had drugged me,” Edwards said, noting how the incident highlighted a profound contradiction.