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Nadine Doris, a conservative politician and minister of culture, media and sport, told representatives of football, cricket, rugby, tennis, track and field and other sports in which trans women compete alongside CIS members “inherently unfair” on Tuesday 28), a day of full pride. “We cannot pretend that gender has no direct effect on a person’s athletic performance,” she wrote on Twitter.
“Requiring women and adolescent girls to compete against someone who is biologically born male is inherently unfair. So I have made my position today emphatically clear: I expect sports bodies to follow the policy that women’s competitive sports should be for people who are born female.” On June 19, the International Swimming Federation (FINA) banned trans women from higher levels of competition. In the name of “Competitive Integrity,” FINA members voted to ban transgender athletes deemed ineligible for the so-called “open category”.
Doris praised the agency’s stance after saying it was “impossible” for trans and CIS athletes to compete side by side. Under FINA guidelines, international rugby union, FIFA and world athletics, among other international esports directors, have either banned or issued revisions to cross-participation policies.
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