The Swimming World Cup has decided to scrap its plans to host an open-category event for transgender swimmers after no one signed up for it.
The event was to serve as a compromise after World Aquatice voted to ban male swimmers from competing in elite female events in 2022. The plan was to offer trans competitors the ability to compete against other trans swimmers in the 50m and 100m events across all strokes.
In addition to World Aquatics, both the Union Cycliste Internationale, the world’s cycling governing body, and World Athletics, the world’s track & field governing body, have banned trans competitors from women’s events this year. “The World Aquatics open category working group will continue its work and engagement with the aquatics community on open category events,” the organization said in a statement.
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