Transgender women will not be able to compete in women’s football in Scotland from next season.
The Scottish Football Association (SFA) is understood to have made a final decision to update its policy after a UK Supreme Court ruling earlier this month.
Change means that only biologically born female players will be able to play in women’s competitive football from U13s up.
It is understood that there are currently no transgender women registered as players in Scotland.
Trans women had the right to play under previous politics, on a case -by -case basis, and if they reduced their testosterone to approved levels.
The football association in England has not yet commented on its policy as the Supreme Court ruling was made on April 16.
The decision clarified that Article 195 of the Law on Equality which allows the legitimate exclusion of athletes from sex affected by sex based on the biological sex.
English Ari still allows trans women to compete against and together with biological women, provided they meet the reduced level of testosterone.
The Governing Body updated its existing transgender and non-binary policy of involvement shortly before the ruling was made, which included the addition of an official process that allowed it to exercise its final discretion to reject or remove acceptability to players due to security or justice.
The SFA decision follows a notice last week that Pool was moving to the transgender women from her female category.
The Ultimate Pool (UPG) group said the Supreme Court’s ruling was a factor, but he also received a report confirming that the pool was a sex affected by the gender.
The report was ordered after a legal challenge by a group of female players.
On Monday, it turned out that the Snooker World Governing Body, the World Professional Billings and the Snooker Association (WPBSA), was reviewing its policy in the light of the Supreme Court’s ruling.
