Football Association (FA) has announced that transgender women will not be allowed to participate in women's football in England from June.
The decision follows a decision of the Supreme Court last month that the terms “woman” and “sex” in equality law refer to “a biological woman and a biological sex”.
Following the judgment, the FA was informed by its lawyers to modify its previous policy, which had allowed transgender women to play in the female game.
In a statement published on Thursday, the football organization said that it had always been opened to revise its position “if there was a change in material law”.
“The decision of the Supreme Court on April 16 means that we will modify our policy,” confirmed the FA.
“Transgender women will no longer be able to play in women's football in England, and this policy will be implemented from June 1, 2025,” he added.
The FA said that it would directly contact all the registered transgender women affected by the decision.
This decision is barely a month after the FA has judged that transgender women could continue to play women's football provided that their testosterone levels are less than five nmol / l for at least a year.
The disputed decision of the Supreme Court has upset years of policies development, many rights groups criticizing the decision.
A former trans judge plans to appeal before the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
Victoria McCloud, who came out transgender in the 1990s and became a judge in 2006, told Euronews that the judgment made life “impossible for people like me”.
