Transgender people born men could be banned from playing women's rugby union in England

Rugby Soccer Union Council members will resolve on Friday whether or not to again a suggestion that will see transgender girls banned from taking part in girls’s rugby in England.

The RFU stated it had “performed an intensive evaluate of its gender participation coverage for English home contact rugby”.

A two-year evaluate carried out by the governing physique noticed greater than 11,000 responses obtained to a game-wide survey on the matter.

The RFU added that it had listened to a variety of views, whereas additionally contemplating scientific proof and steerage from different sporting our bodies.

The advice would see transgender girls banned from taking part in girls’s rugby in England

Mike Egerton

The coverage would take impact forward of the 2022-23 season

Mike Egerton

And the 67-strong Council will now vote on a change of coverage that will take impact forward of the 2022-23 season for English girls’s home contact rugby, with nobody who was born male permitted to play.

“The evaluate and session concluded that peer-reviewed analysis gives proof that there are bodily variations between these folks whose intercourse was assigned as male and people as feminine at delivery, and benefits in energy, stamina and physique caused by male puberty are vital and retained even after testosterone suppression,” the RFU stated in a press release launched final week.

“The RFU Council have been supplied with entry to medical, scientific and social info in order that it could think about this suggestion and the deserves of any different approaches, together with a case-by-case approval course of.

“Nevertheless, the case-by-case evaluation will not be with out difficulties and can lead to gamers not being permitted to take part.

“In mild of the analysis findings and work of World Rugby and the UK Sports activities Councils, and given the difficulties in figuring out a reputable check to evaluate physiological variables, it's endorsed that that is now not a viable choice at the moment and doesn't essentially guarantee inclusion.

“Due to this fact, the RFU Council will vote on a suggestion for a coverage change for contact rugby to solely allow gamers within the feminine class whose intercourse recorded at delivery was feminine.”