The FA is the first major governing sporting body to amend its transgender eligibility criteria following the Supreme Court ruling.

The Ultimate Pool Group (UPG) – the professional body for eight-ball pool – banned transgender women from its female category last month.

Other governing bodies, including the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA), are reassessing their transgender eligibility criteria.

Athletics, cycling and aquatics have implemented outright bans on transgender women taking part in women’s events.

In 2022 British Triathlon became the first British sporting body to establish an open category in which transgender athletes can compete.

This year the ECB banned transgender women from elite domestic cricket.

The ruling meant any player that had gone through male puberty would not be able to feature in the top two tiers of the women’s game, but that transgender women were still eligible for the third tier and below.

However, the ECB is expected to follow the FA ruling by banning transgender women from all levels of the women’s game.

England Netball’s new guidelines, which will apply from 1 September, recognise three distinct gender participation categories: female, male and mixed.

The female category would be “exclusively for players born female, irrespective of their gender identity”, while mixed netball will “serve as the sport’s inclusive category, allowing players to complete under the gender with which they identify”.