UPDATE 05/08/2026
“In 2021, the five Home Country Sports Councils – Sport England, Sport Wales, sportscotland, Sport Northern Ireland and UK Sport – published guidance for Transgender Inclusion in Domestic Sport. The five Sports Councils have agreed it is necessary to review the guidance to ensure it reflects the updated legal context in which sports are operating. The scope, Terms of Reference and timeline for the review are currently being developed. Further information will be shared once these have been agreed.”
The Northern Ireland Equality Commission is asking the High Court to clarify how the Supreme Court’s judgement should be applied in Northern Ireland, given its different equality law framework, and the implications of Article 2 of the Windsor Framework for how that equality law should be interpreted.
Guidance for transgender inclusion in domestic sport published by UK’s Sports Councils in September 2021
The Sports Councils’ Equality Group (SCEG), made up of representatives from each of the UK’s Sports Councils (UK Sport, Sport England, Sport Wales, sportscotland and Sport Northern Ireland), commissioned a review of its existing Guidance (2013/15) for the inclusion of transgender people in sport last year, recognising that sport at every level required more practical advice and support.
This review investigated the views, knowledge, and experience of hundreds of people with a lived experience in sport, including transgender people, and also explored the background to current policies domestically and internationally and considered the latest scientific findings affecting the inclusion of transgender people in domestic sport.
The guidance has been published on the SCEG website, which you can access here, alongside a number of other supporting documents.
The nine documents published are:
