Topic: New Zealand ... self-identity enough for transgender athletes in community sport

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  New Zealand says self-identity enough for transgender athletes in community sport

                               The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/dec/06/new-zealand-says-self-identity-enough-for-transgender-athletes-in-community-sport

Reuters
Mon 5 Dec 2022 22.00 EST

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"Sport New Zealand releases new guiding principles for inclusion.
Includes advice on changing rooms and email signatures.

Transgender athletes will be able to participate in community sport in New Zealand in the gender they identify with and not need to prove or justify their identity, according to new guiding principles released by Sport New Zealand.

“An inclusive transgender policy allows individuals to take part as their self-determined gender and not as the sex they were assigned at birth,” Sport New Zealand (SNZ) said. “It does not ask people to prove or otherwise justify their gender, sex or gender identity.”

SNZ said it was essential that community sport leaders were committed to inclusion and could show that commitment by using pronouns in email signatures and communications, and appointing inclusion officers.

The principles said changing rooms and bathing facilities needed to ensure privacy so that all people could use them safely and comfortably."