LTA bans transgender women from some domestic competitions

Transgender women will nary longer beryllium allowed to play successful immoderate female home tennis and padel tournaments successful Britain, successful changes to the Lawn Tennis Association's rules.

The LTA is updating its transgender and non-binary information policy, but this will not impact introduction into Wimbledon aliases ITF, WTA aliases ATP tournaments staged successful the UK.

The argumentation applies solely to British home inter-club competitions. The rules for circuit events will proceed to beryllium group by the applicable governing body.

From 25 January, transgender women, who were recorded antheral astatine birth, will not beryllium eligible to compete successful female events successful higher graded competitions, which usually impact individuals taking connected players from different nine aliases county.

The rules do not widen to events taking spot betwixt players from conscionable 1 venue - specified arsenic a nine title aliases a play societal tournament. Venues will still beryllium capable to determine their ain argumentation successful these circumstances.

In updating the policy, the LTA says it has had to equilibrium "two perchance conflicting responsibilities: the request to guarantee "competition successful our athletics is adjacent and a work to make judge tennis is welcoming and inclusive for everyone."

It besides says it appreciates the "diversity of sentiment astir this matter" and will support the argumentation nether reappraisal successful the years ahead.

The existent WTA Gender Participation Policy, based connected 2015 guidance, is nether reappraisal successful ray of the International Olympic Committee's transgender eligibility model published successful 2021.

At the moment, the WTA permits transgender women to participate if they person declared their gender arsenic female for a minimum of 4 years, person lowered testosterone levels and work together to testing procedures.

The LPGA Golf Tour precocious decided that transgender women who person gone done antheral puberty will nary longer beryllium allowed to compete connected starring play tours. That followed the England and Wales Cricket Board's determination past period to opportunity that immoderate subordinate who has gone done antheral puberty will beryllium ineligible from the apical 2 tiers of the women's crippled from 2025.

Other sports governing bodies person besides changed their policies successful caller years, including athletics, cycling and swimming to prohibition transgender athletes from competing successful elite women's competitions.