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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Sean Ingle

FA to ban transgender women from playing women’s football in England

Female soccer team players stretching pre-game
The FA’s decision follows a similar move by the Scottish FA this week. Photograph: Rawpixel/Getty Images

The Football Association and England Netball have banned transgender women from women’s teams on a day when the effects of the supreme court ruling on single-sex spaces rippled through sport.

The governing body of cricket, the England and Wales Cricket Board, will do likewise when it meets on Friday, with an insider telling the Guardian “the legal advice is that we will have to follow a similar route”.

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