“Women Speak Tasmania defends the integrity of women’s sport and the right to fair competition.”
- Protecting Fairness, Safety and Opportunity in the Tasmanian Women and Girls Sport StrategyWomen Speak Tasmania has lodged a formal submission to the Department of State Growth on the draft Tasmanian Women and Girls Sport Strategy 2025–2032: “She Moves. She Leads. She Belongs.” We have also copied to the Minister for Sport, Hon.… Read more: Protecting Fairness, Safety and Opportunity in the Tasmanian Women and Girls Sport Strategy
- Fairness Under Strain: Women’s Sport in Tasmania at a CrossroadsTasmanian international and national cycling competitor Jodie Willett took a stand that made headlines. She resigned from her membership of AusCycling, saying she could not continue under a policy that allowed trans-identified males to compete in the women’s category. Willett… Read more: Fairness Under Strain: Women’s Sport in Tasmania at a Crossroads
- New UN Report Affirms Why Women’s Sport Must Remain Female-OnlyWomen Speak Tasmania has called on the Tasmanian Government to urgently address the growing impact of sex self-identification laws on women’s sport. Our concerns are backed by the latest report from Reem Alsalem, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence… Read more: New UN Report Affirms Why Women’s Sport Must Remain Female-Only
Organisation that respect fairness and safety for women
World Aquatics (formerly FINA)
In June 2022, the federation adopted a policy that bars transgender women from elite women’s swimming, unless they can prove they did not go through male puberty beyond Tanner Stage 2 or before age 12—with additional constraints on testosterone exposure.
World Athletics, UCI (International Cycling Union)
According to the Independent Council on Women’s Sports, these federations now follow policies that restrict participation in women’s categories to those who didn’t experience male puberty, alongside testosterone suppression protocols. World Athletics specifically allows transgender women to compete only if they’ve suppressed testosterone below 2.5 nmol/l and avoided male puberty
World Rowing
Defines women as biological females. Transgender women may compete only if they have suppressed testosterone for 24 months to a level of approximately 2.5 nmol/l. Trans men remain in the men’s category.
World Netball
In April 2024 updated its policy to ban transgender women from international competition, unless they “have not experienced the biological effects of testosterone.
World Rugby
States that transwomen who transitioned post-puberty and have experienced the biological effects of testosterone during puberty and adolescence cannot currently play women’s rugby.
FIDE (International Chess Federation)
In August 2023, FIDE banned transgender women from official women’s tournaments—including events like the Women’s Chess World Cup—and stripped any titles awarded to trans men while competing as women.
LPGA (Ladies Professional Golf Association) and USGA (United States Golf Association)
As of 2025, to compete in female categories in their tournaments, players must be female at birth or have transitioned before undergoing male puberty.