British Cycling’s new transgender policy to have ‘open’ and ‘female’ categories
breakingnews.ieBritish Cycling will prevent riders who were born male from racing in elite female events under a new transgender and non-binary participation policy published on Friday.
The governing body’s new rules for competitive events, due to be implemented later this year, will see racing split into “open” and “female” categories, with transgender women, transgender men, non-binary individuals and those whose sex was assigned male at birth eligible to compete in the open category.
The female category will remain for those whose sex was assigned female at birth, and transgender men who are yet to begin hormone therapy.
The current men’s category will be consolidated into the open category, in which those whose sex was assigned as female at birth can also compete if they so wish.
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