Netball Australia Will Not Ban Transgender Players From Elite League

Netball Australia has no intention of banning transgender players from their elite domestic competitions, despite a ruling earlier this week from World Netball to prohibit them from international matches. A statement released by Netball Australia on April 9 expressed that they were “proud of its leading transgender guidelines for both community and elite netball.” World Netball’s policy, released on April 8, outlined the exclusion of transgender players from international fixtures based on a determination that players born as biological males “retained physical advantage following the suppression of testosterone levels in those that have experienced the biological advantages of testosterone at any time in life.”...