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FIFA have drawn up new regulations that make it easier for transgender women to compete in female football, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
The ruling body’s draft framework has removed its testosterone threshold for transgender women and proposed that footballers should be allowed to compete as their self-identified gender.
The new regulations are still at the consultation stage and it is understood that some members of FIFA’s senior management are unconvinced that they should be published in their current form.
But it would represent a radical development if the ruling body of the most popular global sport aligned themselves so strongly with transgender inclusion in the debate that has split sport.
Cycling’s ruling body, the UCI, last week tightened their eligibility criteria for the female category, having been sparked into a review by the case of the British trans-cyclist Emily Bridges.
The UCI lowered the testosterone limit from five to 2.5 nanomoles per litre and doubled the length of time a trans-athlete must suppress her testosterone to within this range to two years.
FIFA have drawn up regulations which make it easier for transgender women to compete in female football, with the governing body’s framework removing its testosterone threshold
Transgender rider Emily Bridges faces being blocked from major events for at least two years
FIFA, however, following an internal review that began in 2020, have dropped their old limit of five nmole/L over 12 months and recommended that no threshold is adopted.
They have proposed that a transgender woman should not be allowed to compete in the female category if she has retained a competitive advantage as a result of male puberty. How that would be determined is unclear but a panel of independent experts from the fields of medicine, psychology, law and human rights would be called to assess each individual case.
The guidelines cover footballers with differences in sexual development (DSD) as well as…
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