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A list of sports organizations that have begun transgender competition bans
The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee has become the latest governing body in the sports world to enact a policy change around transgender athlete competition. Here's a glance at the most prolific of those that have clarified or altered such rules this year: U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee Effectively barring transgender women from competing in women's sports, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee announced on Monday that it has an 'obligation to comply' with an executive order issued by President Donald Trump. The decree has threatened to rescind funding from organizations that don't obey. The USOPC oversees about 50 national governing bodies, most of which have some influence over youth sports all the way up to the elite levels, raising the possibility rules might need to be changed by local clubs to retain memberships. International Cycling Union The global governing body for cycling announced earlier this month that transgender women who transitioned after male puberty will no longer be able to compete in women's races. The decision followed American rider Austin Killips becoming in May the first openly transgender woman to win an official cycling event. University of Pennsylvania Penn modified three school records set by transgender swimmer Lia Thomas in a decision earlier this month to settle a federal civil rights investigation, including an apology to female athletes 'disadvantaged' by her participation on the women's swimming team. Thomas became the first openly transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division I title when she last competed for the Ivy League school in 2022. The Trump administration's broader attempt to block transgender athletes from female sports included the Penn case. The Philadelphia university agreed to restore all individual records to female athletes who lost to Thomas. World Aquatics The global governing body for swimming, formerly known as FINA, announced in June a new ' gender inclusion policy ' that only permits transgender athletes who transitioned before age 12 to compete in women's events. There are not currently any transgender women competing in elite levels of swimming. World Aquatics also proposed a new 'open competition" category, designating a committee to explore over the rest of the year the most effective guidelines for such events. World Boxing Organization The global governing body for boxing declared in May that all athletes would be subjected to mandatory sex testing in order to compete in sanctioned events. World Boxing's announcement specifically mentioned Olympic champion Imane Khelif, the Algerian who won a gold medal at the Paris Olympics last year amid international scrutiny. The previous governing body for Olympic boxing, the Russian-dominated International Boxing Association, disqualified Khelif and Taiwan's Lin Yu-ting, another Paris gold medal winner, from its 2023 world championships after claiming they failed an unspecified eligibility test. Association officials have declined to answer basic questions about the test. Khelif has said she was born a female. British sports Following a U.K. Supreme Court ruling in April, the British governing body for soccer issued a ban that took effect in June on transgender women playing on women's teams in England and Scotland. Previously, the British Football Association allowed such participation if the athletes had reduced testosterone levels. The England and Wales Cricket Board also instituted a ban. World Athletics Council The governing body for track and field banned transgender women from international competition in March, while adopting new regulations that could keep South African star Caster Semenya and other athletes with differences in sex development from competing. The World Athletics Council issued its edict in March, barring athletes who have transitioned from male to female and have gone through male puberty. No such athletes currently compete at the highest elite levels of track. Another set of updates for athletes with differences in sex development raised the potential to impact up to 13 current high-level runners including Semenya, a two-time Olympic champion at 800 meters, who has been barred from that event since 2019. Her discrimination case is still moving through the court system. Semenya and others had been able to compete without restrictions in events outside the range of 400 meters through 1 mile but now must undergo hormone-suppressing treatment for six months before becoming eligible. National Collegiate Athletic Association The NCAA, which oversees the vast majority of U.S. college athletics, announced in February — the day after Trump's order — that competition in women's sports would immediately be limited to athletes assigned female at birth. The NCAA has about 1,100 member schools with more than 500,000 athletes. High school sports Nebraska in June became the latest state to ban transgender students from girls' sports, following similar bans by the high school associations for at least 24 other states. The Trump administration has clashed with multiple states over the allowance of such participation. ___
BBC News
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Ahmed stars to put Foxes in control against Derbys
Rothesay County Championship Division Two, Central Co-op County Ground, Derby (day two)Leicestershire 398: Hill 151, Ahmed 115, Handscomb 101; Reece 6-56, Chappell 2-49Derbyshire 189: Came 56, Jewell 54; Ahmed 6-51 Leics 6pts, Derbys 2ptsMatch scorecard England all-rounder Rehan Ahmed claimed career-best figures as Leicestershire took control of the County Championship match against Derbyshire on a record breaking day at the Central Co-op County followed his hundred on day one by taking 6-51 from 20 overs with his leg spin to bowl the hosts out for 189 in reply to the Division Two leaders' Hill scored 151 and Peter Handscomb 101 but the visitors collapsed spectacularly to Luis Reece who took 5-12 in seven overs to finish with total is the lowest completed innings to include three centuries in the history of county cricket, beating 422 by Essex against Glamorgan at Swansea in they resumed on 357-3, their sights would have been set on 500-plus but they managed only 41 more as Reece ran through completed his hundred in the second over of the morning but then played at one from Zak Chappell that moved away to take the outside rest of the session belonged to Reece whose relentless disciplined line was too much for the Holland edged a drive to be caught by Brooke Guest standing up and after Hill on drove Reece for four to reach 150, he pushed at the next ball and was caught Kimber, having survived a hard head high chance to short cover, then drove an easier catch to the same fielder two balls later before Reece struck twice in an Green was beaten by swing and former Derbyshire bowler Logan van Beek was also snared at cover, the fourth Leicestershire player to be out without Liam Trevaskis was bowled by Alex Thomson in the next over, the visitors had lost their last seven wickets for 38 runs. Derbyshire lost David Lloyd in the first over of their reply when he shouldered arms to Holland but Caleb Jewell and Harry Came then dug in until Ahmed struck either side of pair batted sensibly, both passing 50, to add 112 from 215 balls but Came then dragged a pull into the hands of Madsen went in the leg-spinner's next over, caught at slip playing a big drive, and Ahmed claimed Jewell's wicket immediately after the Australian was trapped lbw going back in his crease and Aneurin Donald was caught behind cutting after a brief counter turned one past Reece's defensive push before bowling Chappell to become the first Leicestershire player to score a hundred and take six wickets in an innings since Phil Simmons against Durham in slide continued with Guest edging a drive at Trevaskis to slip before Thomson was run out and Kimber removed Jack Morley in the final over to leave Derbyshire trailing by 209. Report supplied by ECB Reporters' Network, supported by Rothesay
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