Thank you for contacting me about transgender athletes. It is important for everybody to have the opportunity to play and enjoy sport. It is vital that we create the right environment at grassroots level so that everyone, including transgender people, can get active and participate in sport.
In September 2021, UK Sport published guidance for transgender inclusion in domestic sport. I understand the guidance considered the views, knowledge, and experience of hundreds of people with a lived experience in sport, including transgender people, and also explored the background to current policies domestically and internationally and considered the latest scientific findings affecting the inclusion of transgender people in domestic sport.
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