Triathlon has Become The First British Sport To Ban All

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Triathlon has become the first British sport to ban all women from competing in female events at an elite and grassroots level.
British Triathlon are instead changing their men's category to 'open', which all trans athletes can enter - another first by a national governing body.
The new policy comes into force in January and replaces the old guidelines set in 2018, which allowed trans women to compete against females if they had suppressed their testosterone.

'We concluded that triathlon is a gender-affected sport and that means that athletes who were born male have an advantage over athletes who were born female and this advantage is significant in swim, bike and run,' said British Triathlon chief executive Andy Salmon. 'We also concluded that physiological advantages are retained by testosterone suppression.
'The new policy will require two categories - a female category, which will be open to athletes who are female sex at birth, https://weareliferuiner.com/chocolate-blackberry-kush-grassroots/ and an open category, which will be open to all athletes, including men and transgender athletes.
British Triathlon have banned all transgender women from competing in female events.

Pictured are Team France's athletes at the World Triathlon Series event in Leeds last month
The ban will be in place from January, in both elite level competitions and grassroots
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