A day after FINA—the international governing body for water sports—adopted a new “gender inclusion policy” that restricted participation by transgender athletes in women’s events, FIFA will reportedly review its own transgender policy, according to Simon Evans of Reuters.
FINA’s new policy only permits swimmers who transitioned before age 12 to compete in women’s events. The organization also proposed an “open competition category,” which FINA said it would be setting up “a new working group that will spend the next six months looking at the most effective ways to set up this new category.”
It’s unclear whether FIFA is considering adopting a similar “open competition” division.
