High-performance guidelines released for transgender participation

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Advocates have welcomed a new set of guidelines for transgender athletes seeking to compete in elite female competition. The Australian Sports Commission released the non-compulsory guidelines to allow for individual sporting federations to determine their own policies allowing transgender athletes to compete in female categories.

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