Sports inclusion guidelines: No published assessment seven years on

Emma and Nerissa examine the 2019 sports inclusion guidelines that clubs running female-only competition still rely on, and the questions put to the Minister for Sport at the National Press Club on 15 October. They look at how the guidelines place participation based on affirmed gender identity first and treat female-only categories under section 42 of the Sex Discrimination Act as an exception framed around excluding an individual, and at why they can find no published assessment seven years after launch. They also cover the reports that some clubs fear discrimination claims, and what an independent, published review that consults women's groups would need to establish.

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