FA says transgender girls can not compete in girls’s soccer from 1 June

Transgender girls will not be capable of play in girls’s soccer in England from 1 June, the Football Association has introduced.

It amended its laws on 11 April, making use of stricter eligibility standards for transgender girls to proceed enjoying in girls’s soccer in any respect ranges.

However, following the UK Supreme Court’s ruling on 15 April that the criminal definition of a girl is according to organic intercourse, the FA has scrapped that coverage and says handiest the ones born biologically feminine shall be accredited to play.

“This is a complex subject, and our position has always been that if there was a material change in law, science, or the operation of the policy in grassroots football then we would review it and change it if necessary,” the FA stated.

“We understand that this will be difficult for people who simply want to play the game they love in the gender by which they identify, and we are contacting the registered transgender women currently playing to explain the changes and how they can continue to stay involved in the game.”

Sources have advised BBC Sport that the Scottish FA is set to apply the English FA’s ruling through banning transgender girls from girls’s soccer in Scotland.