BUDAPEST: Swimming will set up an ‘open category’ to allow transgender athletes to compete as part of a new policy which will effectively ban them from women’s races.
“I do not want any athlete to be told they cannot compete at the highest level,” Husain Al-Musallam, president of governing body FINA, told an extraordinary congress of his organisation.
“I understand why transgender athletes want to compete in the gender of their choice…but we should not favour one athlete over another.”
“I will set up a working group that will establish an open category at some of out…
