LPGA Year is also banned from transgender domestic golf tournaments

LPGA Year is also banned from transgender domestic golf tournaments

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In the wake of the controversy over sex change athletes participating in the women's competition at the 2024 Paris Olympics, more and more transgender athletes are banned from participating in the women's competition. The decision is based on the judgment that even if the biological gender has been changed from male to female, it is not fair for athletes who have already changed their gender to male after secondary sexual characteristics have been developed. 바카라사이트

R&A, an organization that enacts and manages rules for golf competitions, announced a "fair competition policy" on the 13th (Korea time), which regulates transgender people's participation in professional and amateur competitions. "From next year, only athletes who have changed their gender to women before being born as women or experiencing secondary sexual characteristics as men will be eligible to participate in women's competitions hosted by R&A," the R&A said.

"Over the past year, medical and scientific experts have conducted research on the performance of transgender athletes," R&A said. "Players who have changed their sex after secondary sexual characteristics as men are more advantageous than those born as women."

Earlier, the USGA and the LPGA Tour announced the same regulations on the 5th.

The U.K., the dominant country in tennis, has also banned transgender women from participating in domestic tennis competitions. The British Tennis Association (LTA) recently established a new regulation that bans transgender women from participating in national and inter-club competitions. This regulation does not apply to major Wimbledon, the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Tour and the International Tennis Federation (ITF) competitions.