{"id":1568550,"date":"2022-07-24T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1568550"},"modified":"2022-07-24T08:22:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T12:22:07","slug":"british-rugby-seeks-to-ban-trans-athletes-from-competing-in-womens-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/british-rugby-seeks-to-ban-trans-athletes-from-competing-in-womens-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"British Rugby Seeks To Ban Trans Athletes From Competing In Women&#8217;s Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbritish-rugby-seeks-to-ban-trans-athletes-from-competing-in-womens-sports%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1568550&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>New recommendations from the Rugby Football Union (RFU), the governing body for the sport in England, will block biological men from playing in contact rugby competitions alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/athletes-mark-50th-anniversary-of-title-ix-as-biden-moves-to-do-away-with-protections-for-womens-sports\/\">female athletes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Following a two year review of guidelines and rules, the RFU is now recommending to their Council that athletes assigned male at birth should not be allowed to play in women\u2019s rugby, reports <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/00e7b290-09c3-11ed-a986-fc91b4ad48f0?shareToken=5deac02e34064acb86ca24201ef7d27b\">The Times<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\"><\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Previously, the organization had allowed transgender women to play alongside female athletes on a case-by-case basis.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>The new recommendation aligns with guidelines in place by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.world.rugby\/the-game\/player-welfare\/guidelines\/transgender\">World Rugby,<\/a> the international governing body of Rugby Union, as well as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/nbc-out\/out-news\/rugby-league-joins-clampdown-transgender-athletes-womens-sport-rcna34734\">International Rugby League<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>The recommendation states the RFU Council should put rules in place that mirror those used by World Rugby.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.world.rugby\/the-game\/player-welfare\/guidelines\/transgender\">World Rugby<\/a> rules states: &#8220;Transgender women may not currently play women\u2019s rugby\u2026 because of the size, force and power-producing advantages conferred by testosterone during puberty and adolescence, and the resultant player welfare risks this creates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.englandrugby.com\/news\/article\/rfu-council-to-vote-on-gender-participation-policy-for-rugby-union-in-england\">RFU<\/a> stated that it &#8220;has contacted registered trans female players, on whom the policy will have a direct impact to offer its support in continuing to encourage them to participate in the sport.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;This is a complex and difficult decision and the recommendation has not been made lightly or without thorough and full research and consultation,&#8221; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.englandrugby.com\/news\/article\/rfu-council-to-vote-on-gender-participation-policy-for-rugby-union-in-england\">RFU<\/a> stated.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>According to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/00e7b290-09c3-11ed-a986-fc91b4ad48f0?shareToken=5deac02e34064acb86ca24201ef7d27b\">The Times<\/a><\/em>, there are approximately six transgender women playing community rugby in England, who applied to play in the RFU. The RFU decided to approve them playing, on the basis that there would be no increased risk to their opponents based on the athletes&#8217; size and weight.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>In regards to biological females applying to play with men, RFU recommended, &#8220;In the male category it is proposed that players whose sex recorded at birth is female may play if they provide their written consent and a risk assessment is carried out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>According to the RFU, the Council will be voting on the recommendations on July 29. If approved, the new rules will be introduced ahead of the 2022\/23 season.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/british-transgender-rugby-star-celebrated-for-injuring-women\">Previously<\/a>, a biological male rugby athlete came under fire in 2019 for playing against female players, with one BBC article describing a time that athlete Kelly Morgan &#8220;folded an opponent &#8216;like a deckchair.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New recommendations from the Rugby Football Union (RFU), the governing body for the sport in England, will block biological men from playing in contact rugby competitions alongside female athletes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1575334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1568550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1568550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1575334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1568550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1568550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1568550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}