Most in sport ‘want to keep current rules on gender categories’ BODY’S NEW GUIDANCE ON TRANS INCLUSION
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THE vast majority of people working in sport surveyed by Sport Ireland prefer that current rules around gender categories are retained, the body revealed last night.
The detail emerged as Sport Ireland published new guidance on the inclusion of transgender and non-binary people in sport in this country.
The guidelines are intended to educate sporting bodies here on the issue of trans participation in general, but Sport Ireland stressed that policy decisions will be left up to individual organisations.
The move comes following a string of controversies around the participation of trans women in female categories in other countries.
US swimmer Lia Thomas, who rose to global prominence by becoming the first transgender athlete to win a NCAA college
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Other sports have taken a different approach.
In 2021, New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard became the first trans woman to compete in the Olympics.
Last weekend, Ireland’s Katie Sheldon was beaten in the final of a 2024 PDC Women’s Series event in Wigan by the Netherlands’ Noa-Lynn van Leuven, who is the first trans woman to compete on the professional darts tour.
To prepare the advice, Sport Ireland surveyed more than 4,000 people in grassroots and high-performance sporting organisations as well as transgender and non-binary people and the general public.
It said: “While many from the LGBTI+ community, transgender and non-binary people and their families are supportive of inclusion through self-identification, this view is not shared by the vast majority of people working and taking part in sport who favoured protection of a female category (as assigned at birth).
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“Across all groups there was modest support for entry into the female category through requirement such as testosterone suppression.
“When the general public was surveyed through the Irish Sports Monitor, results were more spread, with some support for inclusion, but more so for categorisation based on sex asigned at birth.”
It added: “The biomedical science tells us that there are significant differences in the determinants of sporting performance between the sexes.
“At this time the evidence points to retention of some of these differences in transgender women, even after transition therapy.
“It is also clear that exercise and sport is important to everyone, both for physical and mental health as well as social benefits, and so Sport Ireland is keen to make sure there is a place for everyone in sport.”
A 2020 study by the British Journal of Sports Medicine found transgender women retained greater heart and lung capacity, more muscle mass and lower body fat than those assigned the sex at birth.
The study found these advantages could not be balanced out, even after two years of testosterone-suppressing treatment.