British Cycling bans transgender riders from female category

Two new policies covering competitive and non-competitive trans and non-binary participation come after a nine-month review process

-  Tom Thewlis, Vern Pitt

British Cycling has blocked transgender women from competing in female events. This comes as part of two new transgender policies issued by the governing body covering competitive and non-competitive activities.

The organisation’s previous testosterone-based policy was suspended in April last year. This was, in part, due to fears trans athlete Emily Bridges would have had an advantage competing at the Omnium National Championship.

Under the new competitive policy, events will no longer have male and female categories. Instead there will now be a female and an ‘open’ category.