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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Paul MacInnes

SFA to ban transgender women from playing in women’s football

A general view of Hampden before a Scottish Gas Women's Scottish Cup semi-final match
Current rules in Scotland allow for transgender women to compete under their affirmed gender identity on a case-by-case basis but those rules are set to change. Photograph: Luke Nickerson/Rangers FC/REX/Shutterstock

The Scottish Football Association is to ban transgender women from participating in women’s football after updating its guidelines.

From next season only biological women will be able to take part in women’s competitive football, a term that applies to matches from under-13s up.

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