The Australian Sports Commission releases its guidelines for the inclusion of transgender and gender diverse athletes in high-performance sport.
abc.net.au/news/transgender-inclusion-guidelines-for-australian-sport/102486230The Australian Sports Commission has released its guidelines for the inclusion of transgender and gender diverse athletes in high performance sport, reminding sports governing bodies of their commitment to promoting a 'spirit of inclusion' and abiding by Australian law.
Australian sport must comply with the Sex Discrimination Act, which makes it unlawful to discriminate, harass, or victimise on the basis of sex or gender identity. Exemptions are allowed in sport where unfair advantage or safety risks can be objectively proven. "What we've been able to do…working with medical professionals, people involved in sport – both cisgender and trans athletes, as well as the LGBTQ+ community and others… [is] to actually find the Australian context and come up with guidelines that allow for a pragmatic approach."
"They must be able to show that they're going through that process, that it's leading to the physiological changes that come with wanting to move to their accepted gender. These metrics are used to generate information about an individual athlete's actual sport-specific performance capabilities compared with the wider population of athletes.
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