According to BBC Scotland, the Scottish FA is updating its gender policy to outlaw transgender women playing women’s football.
Only those who were biologically female will be permitted to compete in women’s competitive games starting next season.
The current policy allows transgender women to compete against one another in their affirmed gender category, taking testosterone levels into account as well.
However, it is understood that there are currently no transgender women playing competitive football north of the border.
A recent board meeting gave the revised policy the go-ahead, but discussions aimed at updating the current guidelines had been going on for some time.
Following the recent Supreme Court decision that a woman is subject to equalities law’s definition of biological sex, the final decision was made.
The SFA rule change will allow the governing body to compare football to other sports like rugby, swimming, and athletics.
The FA’s regulations in England allow transgender women to compete in the women’s game if they have a match observer and have low testosterone levels.
Source: BBC
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