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Sporting organisations who have restricted the female category to mean the female sex..

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ChateauMargaux · 26/05/2023 17:53

The policies might not all be perfect - but they are moving in the right direction - I would like to take a moment to recognise all of those who have steps in the right direction..

The UK's Sports Councils
https://equalityinsport.org/resources/index.html
Categorisation within the sex binary is and remains the most useful and functional division relative to sporting performance.

Swim England
https://www.swimming.org/swimengland/transgender-competition-policy-update/
Only athletes who have declared a birth sex of female will compete in the ‘female’ category.

FINA: Fédération Internationale de Natation.
https://resources.fina.org/fina/document/2022/06/19/525de003-51f4-47d3-8d5a-716dac5f77c7/FINA-INCLUSION-POLICY-AND-APPENDICES-FINAL-.pdf
Male-to-female transgender athletes ... is female are eligible to compete in the women’s category... if they .....have not experienced any part of male puberty beyond Tanner Stage 2 or before age 12.

World Athletics:
https://worldathletics.org/news/press-releases/council-meeting-march-2023-russia-belarus-female-eligibility
In regard to transgender athletes, the Council has agreed to exclude male-to-female transgender athletes who have been through male puberty from female World Rankings competition from 31 March 2023.

British Cycling
https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/about/article/20230526-about-bc-static-Update--Transgender-and-Non-Binary-Participation-policies-0
The ‘Female’ category will remain in place for those whose sex was assigned female at birth and transgender men who are yet to begin hormone therapy.

British Triathlon
https://www.britishtriathlon.org/britain/documents/about/edi/transgender-policy-effective-from-01-jan-2023.pdf.
Only people who are the female sex at birth will be eligible to compete in the Female category.

Come on British Rowing, England Hockey, Scotland Hockey, Parkrun and IOC..

Persuasive article here.. let's not stop at elite athletes - all athletes are entitled to fair competition.

https://bmjopensem.bmj.com/content/8/1/e001273#:~:text=Athletes%20are%20currently%20excluded%20from,sex%20variations%20in%20November%202021.

Resources

https://equalityinsport.org/resources/index.html

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HairyKitty · 26/05/2023 18:27

Shame though about the 98% of women in everyday sports that still have to compete against transgender males.

Babdoc · 26/05/2023 18:20

The tide is definitely on the turn. Not just sports bodies, but company marketing, eg Bud Lite.
I note that Dreamies have now removed their rainbow packaging, so I am buying them again. My cat is ecstatic!

ChateauMargaux · 26/05/2023 18:01

@tigger2022 .. I wish the papers had interviewed the women who have been silently cheering or perhaps shedding tears of relief that this has been changed.... thinking, thank fuck for that, now get on with the rest of it.. if it matters here.. look around and see where else it might matter.... yet again, when it is a story about women.. they asked men to comment.

But yeah!! Keep the policy changes coming!!!

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soddingspiderseason · 26/05/2023 17:57

About bloody time that common sense prevailed.

tigger2022 · 26/05/2023 17:54

It feels like the tide has changed! Though I did see Emily Bridges release a statement where he thought this was “genocide” 😬