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Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has told the heads of United Kingdom sporting bodies that \u201celite and competitive women\u2019s sport must be reserved for people born of the female sex\u201d.<\/p>\n

Dorries met representatives from 15 sports including football, cricket, rugby, tennis and athletics plus UK Sport and Sport England bosses.<\/p>\n

Swimming\u2019s world governing body Fina recently voted to stop transgender athletes from competing in women\u2019s elite events if they have gone through any part of the male puberty process.<\/p>\n

Britain\u2019s Olympic diving champion Tom Daley has said he is \u201cfurious\u201d at Fina\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in April he did not believe transgender women should compete in female sporting events.<\/p>\n

Dorries urged the governing bodies \u201cto adopt the government\u2019s unequivocal view\u201d on transgender athletes competing in women\u2019s sports.<\/p>\n

She said that \u201cclear direction is needed that protects and shows compassion to all athletes\u201d and encouraged them to move to a position \u201cwhere fairness takes priority in competitive sport\u201d, which included considering \u201claunching inclusive open categories where appropriate\u201d.<\/p>\n

Fina says it is aiming to establish an \u2018open\u2019 category at competitions for swimmers whose gender identity is different than their birth sex.<\/p>\n

\u201cSport is for everyone, no matter where you\u2019ve come from in life. It allows people to come together and perform on a level playing field, based upon basic fairness and the integrity of competition,\u201d said Dorries.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government has the utmost compassion for people born into a body they don\u2019t recognise. But we can\u2019t pretend that sex doesn\u2019t have a direct impact on a person\u2019s athletic performance. Asking women and teenage girls to compete against someone who was biologically born a male is inherently unfair.<\/p>\n

\u201cI recognise that this is a complex and emotionally charged issue, so I welcome the support of our domestic governing bodies to protect and show compassion to all athletes. In the interests of sporting integrity, we must bring clarity to protect the future interests of sport around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

For their part, the governing bodies said that they are \u201cactively carrying out their own scientific research to establish the impact of athletes\u2019 sex at birth and gender reassignment on athletic performance\u201d.<\/p>\n

UK Sport and UK England will report back to ministers on progress later in the summer.<\/p>\n

Fina took the decision after a report by a scientific panel said that going through male puberty meant trans women retained a \u201crelative performance advantage over biological females\u201d, even after medication to reduce testosterone.<\/p>\n

Former Great Britain swimmer Sharron Davies, who has argued against transgender participation in women\u2019s elite swimming, told BBC Sport she was \u201creally proud of Fina\u201d.<\/p>\n

However, \u2018Athlete Ally\u2019 \u2014 an LGBT advocacy group which organised a letter of support for transgender American college swimmer Lia Thomas in February, called the new policy \u201cdiscriminatory, harmful, unscientific and not in line with the 2021 IOC principles\u201d.<\/p>\n

Cycling\u2019s governing body, the UCI, recently toughened its rules on transgender eligibility.<\/p>\n

In rugby league, transgender players have been banned from women\u2019s internationals while International Rugby League (IRL) does further research on its policy.<\/p>\n

Other world governing bodies, including World Athletics and Fifa, are now reviewing their inclusion policies.<\/p>\n

World Athletics president Lord Coe hinted to the BBC that the sport could follow swimming\u2019s example, saying it is set to discuss adopting a new eligibility policy and that \u201cfairness is non-negotiable\u201d.<\/p>\n

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