Transwoman footballer in sports activities row is ‘naughty schoolgirl’ intercourse employee
A transgender footballer pressured to stop a ladies’s league after opposing groups refused to play in opposition to her has a secret previous as a intercourse employee who dressed up as a ‘mischievous schoolgirl’ for paying shoppers, MailOnline can reveal.
Fran Needham, 30, earlier this week withdrew from the South Yorkshire-based Rossington Main Ladies ‘for the foreseeable future’ after gamers withdrew from going through her over alleged ‘security’ issues final weekend.
Now the row has taken a brand new twist because it has emerged that Needham was beforehand a prostitute who apparently specialised in “cheerleader/schoolgirl” situations.
She conceded that this had occurred however, whereas acknowledging her vibrant previous, Needham insisted this shouldn’t have any bearing on her eligibility to play ladies’s soccer.
And she informed Mailonline her opponents have been intent on forcing her out of the sport by ‘dragging up the past.’
Francesca Needham, 30, is a trans lady footballer who was pressured to stop ladies’s league
On her prostitution profile she stated she was pleased to see female and male shoppers and loved a wide range of sexual fetishes together with lactation, position play and foot worship
Although Needham boasts of the ‘additional shock hiding underneath my skirt’ on her escort profiles, the FA permitted the trans lady’s software to play in opposition to 16-year-old schoolgirls
Ms Needham stated she now works full time in an everyday job and is not engaged as a intercourse employee, declaring that her profile on a intercourse work web site is now redundant.
She stated: ‘It is not an active profile, I accidentally left it up but it’s something I stopped doing before I began playing football.
‘It is something I have done in the past, I will agree and I am not going to lie about that. However everyone has a past and it shouldn’t be brought up out of context.
‘I stopped doing this well before I joined the team and had anything to do with the FA.
‘My personal life is completely separate and distinct from my football life. I have a full time job now and that is part of my past.
‘All I want to be able to do is play football or at least support the team that I played for. I have had tremendous support from my teammates and I’m grateful for that.’
It’s unclear when the intercourse employee profile was energetic and Ms Needham declined to debate additional.
Fran Needham used the username TS_Cleo_King to promote her sexual companies
She stated: ‘I’m open to dinner dates and different occasions, and I all the time look beautiful in a gown or skirt or high’
Ms Needham registered on grownup website in 2022. Her profile has been seen over 30,000 instances
Her indignant response got here after 1000’s of likes for posts revealing how Needham had beforehand marketed her companies as a ‘Pre op trans girl to make your dreams come true.’
Posting an image of herself in schoolgirl garb, she wrote: ‘Transgender girl before surgery ready to fulfil your fantasies! She can also play the role of a mischievous and entertaining schoolgirl revealing an exciting surprise hidden under her skirt.”
Nicknamed Fran, Needham withdrew from South Yorkshire’s Rossington Main Ladies (pictured), which plays in an open age league that welcomes any woman above the age of 16
The 30-year-old has ‘terrified’ her opponents and ‘broke one girl’s knee, leaving her out for the season, after the opposing player blocked one of Needham’s shots’
She also suggests clients may wish to play the role of a ‘naughty schoolgirl’ who has been despatched to her for “punishment.”
The profile has horrified the footballing community in South Yorkshire where Ms Needham was forced out of the Sheffield and Hallamshire Women’s League because “terrified” opponents refused to play against her.
A supply near the ladies’s soccer neighborhood stated: ‘It is clear the birth male playing on the ladies team has been a sex worker.
‘This is a massive safeguarding concern.
‘It’s worth bearing in mind this birth male would be sharing changing rooms and single sex spaces with young females.”
In another of her prostitution profiles, Needham said: ‘I can be your naughty schoolgirl… we can roleplay a cheerleader or schoolgirl scenario’
Ms Needham is now in the process of instigating legal action against the FA.
In a statement posted to the Facebook page of her club, Rossington Main Ladies, based just outside Doncaster, she says her side has ‘faced challenges from teams unwilling to play against us while I am on the field.’
She adds: ‘This unfortunate circumstance has prompted me to investigate pursuing a case of discrimination, as I believe it represents a breach of a code of conduct regarding diversity and inclusion, as well as safeguarding of adults in football established by both the Football Association and the Sheffield and Hallamshire Women and Girls League.’
The boycott from other teams in the league came about when a player was injured in an on-field incident involving Needham.
The opponent is said to have suffered a broken knee when blocking a powerful strike from the Rossington player.
Needham has only played two games in the league this season, both last month, but hasn’t lined up for the club since it became mired in the controversy.
A manager from an opposing team said it was clear after five minutes that Needham was transgender.
The manager said ‘It was obvious. Unfortunately, the FA allowed it to happen but didn’t let anyone know. She’s quite a big strong player. People have refused to play because they are worried about the safety of the players.
‘My players were backing out of challenges as psychologically it’s quite a big thing, when you are playing against a biological man it’s quite scary. They were terrified.’
Rossington Main President Gerald Parsons refused to touch upon the controversy aside from stating that their opponents ‘could not increase a group’ in latest weeks.
The supervisor of one of many groups to refuse to play defined the boycott, saying: ‘I have 16 and 17 year old players playing for me and their parents weren’t too keen to put their welfare at risk.
‘It is a welfare issue rather than a transgender issue.’
The Family Education Trust’s Lucy Marsh informed MailOnline: ‘It is a critical breach of safeguarding guidelines to permit a male who clearly has a sexual fetish about dressing up as a schoolgirl to have entry to altering rooms and loos alongside women as younger as 16.
‘This particular person has a public profile as a intercourse employee and posts express photographs on-line. Many gamers on this ladies’s soccer league are underneath 18, that means that legally they’re kids.’
Fiona McAnena of Fair Play For Women stated: ‘Footballers are separated by intercourse for superb causes.
‘If you place one male on the pitch they’re quicker, they’re stronger. It is patently unfair and in a contact sport like soccer it is unsafe.
‘These ladies did not select combined soccer, they selected ladies’s soccer. It’s not as a result of this participant is trans, it’s as a result of they’re male.’
She stated it ‘does not matter’ whether or not the participant has totally transitioned or not as Sports Council steering states ‘it isn’t doable to reverse the consequences of male puberty.’
She added: ‘The legislation says you may separate in sport on the premise of intercourse if that’s obligatory for equity and security and clearly it’s.’
The FA has a brand new draft coverage on transgender gamers that’s but to be printed. Ms McAnena stated the FA had consulted on updating it and ‘they should do one thing about it urgently as a result of ladies and women are getting harm in soccer.’
There are presently at the least 50 transgender gamers understood to be registered in ladies’s leagues throughout England.
But Needham was backed by her membership and followers. Following her departure, supporters stated it was ‘saddening’ and vowed to ‘stand by’ her as she ‘paves the way in which ahead’ for different trans gamers.
The women’ group secretary stated ‘in unity we defeat discrimination’, whereas supporters rallied across the former prostitute.
Supporter Sarah Nicholson stated: ‘So bloody saddening that it has come to this! Wishing you all one of the best Fran xx.’
Simon Baker stated: ‘A giant determination Fran, however one I imagine your teammates, membership officers and each Rossington Main Ladies FC supporters, RMLFC, supporter will stand by you on. All one of the best going ahead.’
A 3rd supporter, Julie Large, stated: ‘Hope every little thing will get sorted quickly it is a very delicate scenario however hopefully you’ll pave the way in which ahead so nobody else has to undergo what you’ve got xxx.’
Rossington Main Ladies president Gerald Parsons informed MailOnline: ‘I do not know something about it and I do not want to make a remark.’
An FA spokesman stated: ‘We are working with Sheffield & Hallamshire County FA to discover a decision.
‘This difficulty is complicated and continuously evolving, and like many different nationwide governing our bodies in sport, we’re at the moment reviewing our transgender coverage for English soccer to make sure it’s inclusive, truthful and secure for all.’
