UK culture secretary urges ban on transgender athletes competing in female-only events

Lucy Fraser calls on sporting officials to draw up ‘unambiguous’ guidelines on gender identity

The culture secretary has called for transgender athletes to be banned from competing in female-only events as she urged sporting officials to draw up fresh guidelines to clarify the rules governing gender identity.

Lucy Frazer wrote in the Mail that sports governing bodies needed to set out an “unambiguous position” on the issue, amid rows over trans athletes participating in female only events including such as cycling, swimming and darts.