{"id":28079,"date":"2025-05-01T11:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T11:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/fa-says-transgender-women-cannot-compete-in-womens-football-from-1-june\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T11:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T11:25:09","slug":"fa-says-transgender-women-cannot-compete-in-womens-football-from-1-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/fa-says-transgender-women-cannot-compete-in-womens-football-from-1-june\/","title":{"rendered":"FA says transgender women cannot compete in women&#8217;s football from 1 June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The FA is the first major governing sporting body to amend its transgender eligibility criteria following the Supreme Court ruling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Ultimate Pool Group (UPG) &#8211; the professional body for eight-ball pool &#8211; banned transgender women from its female category last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Other governing bodies, including the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA), are reassessing their transgender eligibility criteria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Athletics, cycling and aquatics have implemented outright bans on transgender women taking part in women&#8217;s events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2022 British Triathlon became the first British sporting body to establish an open category in which transgender athletes can compete.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This year the ECB <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c3vk40xkqy0o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">banned<\/a> transgender women from elite domestic cricket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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&#8217;s game, but that transgender women were still eligible for the third tier and below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the ECB is expected to follow the FA ruling by banning transgender women from all levels of the women&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England Netball&#8217;s new guidelines, which will apply from 1 September, recognise three distinct gender participation categories: female, male and mixed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The female category would be &#8220;exclusively for players born female, irrespective of their gender identity&#8221;, while mixed netball will &#8220;serve as the sport&#8217;s inclusive category, allowing players to complete under the gender with which they identify&#8221;. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cz01z4rdx4no\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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) &#8211; the professional body for eight-ball pool &#8211; banned transgender women from its female category last month. Other governing bodies, including the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA), are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1628,403,209,9815,838,1705],"class_list":["post-28079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk","tag-compete","tag-football","tag-june","tag-transgender","tag-women","tag-womens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28081,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28079\/revisions\/28081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}