"USA Rugby announced on Friday that it will now ban transgender women from being eligible to compete in the women's division, but that the organization will continue to permit "any athlete registered as male to participate in the men's division." The policy, which took effect February 20, reverses the eligibility standards the organization had maintained since at least 2022."
"Under its previous policy, now deleted from USA Rugby's website, the organization adhered to the International Olympic Committee's 2015 transgender guidelines, which permitted transgender women to compete in the women's division provided they declared a female gender identity for a minimum of four years and maintained testosterone levels below 10 nmol/L for at least 12 months prior to competition."
"The change comes in response to a U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee directive issued last July ordering national sports governing bodies to ban transgender women from women's Olympic competitions. The USOPC directive followed President Donald Trump's executive "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports.""
USA Rugby implemented a new policy banning transgender women from women's competition while permitting male-registered athletes in men's divisions. This reversal of the organization's previous standards, maintained since 2022, responds to a July directive from the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee ordering national sports governing bodies to exclude transgender women from Olympic women's competitions. The directive followed President Trump's executive order titled "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports." Previously, USA Rugby followed International Olympic Committee guidelines requiring transgender women to declare female gender identity for four years and maintain testosterone levels below 10 nmol/L for twelve months before competition. The organization also conducted confidential three-step evaluations. The updated policy now establishes an open division allowing any athlete to compete regardless of sex assigned at birth or hormone levels.
Read at Advocate.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]