World biking’s governing physique has dominated transgender girls can be prevented from competing in feminine occasions.
The UCI mentioned anybody who has transitioned after male puberty might compete in a ‘males/open’ class.
Feminine American transgender bike owner Austin Killips gained a UCI girls’s occasion two months in the past.
Within the wake of that outcome, the world physique reopened session on the problem, saying it heard “the voice of feminine athletes and their issues about an equal enjoying subject for rivals”.
The UCI has renamed the male class ‘males/open’ and added “any athlete who doesn’t meet the situations for participation in girls’s occasions can be admitted with out restriction”.
Beforehand, transgender girls might compete in elite feminine occasions supplied they met testosterone-based rules.
Now, the UCI says it has “taken notice of the state of scientific data” round hormone remedy, which it says “doesn’t utterly remove the advantages of testosterone throughout puberty in males”.
In consequence, it concluded motion was essential at worldwide stage “as a precautionary measure”.
“Biking is open to everybody, together with transgender folks,” mentioned UCI president David Lappartient.
“Nonetheless [the UCI] has an obligation to ensure equal alternatives for all rivals.”
The UCI additionally acknowledged guidelines “might change sooner or later as scientific data evolves”.
The governing physique mentioned the modifications would apply to occasions on the UCI worldwide calendar, together with the Girls’s World Tour, World Championships and World Cups throughout completely different biking disciplines.