Transgender women soccer players to be banned from English women's teams

The Associated Press

· Posted: May 01, 2025 10:52 AM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

Transgender women volition beryllium banned from playing connected women's shot teams successful England pursuing a U.K. Supreme Court ruling past month, the sport's governing assemblage said Thursday.

The Football Association said it had decided to alteration its rules that had allowed transgender athletes to play connected women's shot if they had reduced testosterone levels. The Scottish Football Association made a akin determination past week.

The U.K's highest tribunal issued a ruling 2 weeks agone that defined a pistillate for anti-discrimination purposes arsenic idiosyncratic calved biologically female. The caput of the Equality and Human Rights Commission said aft the ruling that transgender women would beryllium excluded from women's toilets, infirmary wards and sports teams.

While the ruling was cheered by immoderate feminist groups, it has been condemned by trans-rights groups who said it would person a wide and detrimental interaction connected regular life.

The FA said its argumentation had been to marque the athletics accessible to arsenic galore radical arsenic imaginable but that it would marque alterations if determination were changes successful law, subject oregon the operations of "grassroots football."

"We recognize that this volition beryllium hard for radical who simply privation to play the crippled they emotion successful the sex by which they identify, and we are contacting the registered transgender women presently playing to explicate the changes and however they tin proceed to enactment progressive successful the game," the FA said successful a statement.

It was not wide however galore players would beryllium affected by the argumentation that would instrumentality effect June 1.