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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Sean Ingle

British Triathlon creates ‘open’ category for transgender athletes to compete at all levels

Competitors take part in a triathlon in Dorset. ‘Open’ and ‘female’ categories will apply to any race which is timed or has prizes in the UK.
Competitors take part in a triathlon in Dorset. ‘Open’ and ‘female’ categories will apply to any race which is timed or has prizes in the UK. Photograph: Graham Hunt/Alamy

Triathlon has become the first sport in the UK to ban transgender athletes from racing in the female category at elite and grassroots level after deciding that “fairness of competition is paramount”.

Under British Triathlon’s new policy, which kicks in on 1 January 2023, transgender athletes over the age of 12 will now have to compete in an “open category” for “all individuals including male, transgender and those non-binary who were male sex at birth”.

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