Friday 8 April 2022 The decision by British Cycling’s Board of Directors to suspend its Transgender and Non-Binary Participation Policy – which was most recently updated in January 2022 – is hugely disappointing and will have a detrimental impact on the welcoming and inclusive environment that the governing body had been hoping to create in the sport. The UK’s leading …
New participation guidance for transgender people in sport set to make a bad situation worse Today sees the publication of the long awaited Sports Council Equality Group (SCEG) ‘Review into Transgender Inclusion in Domestic Sport in the UK.’ The UK’s leading LGBTIQ+ sports organisations, LEAP Sports Scotland, Pride Sports & LGBT Sport Cmyru fear that the new SCEG guidance will be …
Leading LGBTIQ+ sports organisations from the UK are calling upon UK Rugby Clubs to stand with them to oppose new proposals from World Rugby which would see transgender women being banned from playing. Michelle Daltry who represents LGBT+ Sport Cymru on the Alliance said: “We are asking rugby clubs at all levels of the game to stand with us against …
International Gay Rugby, (IGR) rejects proposed guideline changes which would ban transgender women and significantly restrict transgender men and non-binary folxs from playing full contact rugby. On Monday August 17th, 2020, International Gay Rugby, which has 89 full LGBTQ+ inclusive rugby clubs from around the world, delivered a 230-page position paper to World Rugby rejecting a proposed policy guideline which would severely impact the right of …
