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Sportstalk's D'Arcy Waldegrave on Sport NZ's new guidelines for transgender athletes in community sports

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Publish Date
Tue, 6 Dec 2022, 5:40pm
Every New Zealander has the right to participate in sport, says Sport New Zealand's new guidelines. Photo / Benson Kua
Every New Zealander has the right to participate in sport, says Sport New Zealand's new guidelines. Photo / Benson Kua

Sportstalk's D'Arcy Waldegrave on Sport NZ's new guidelines for transgender athletes in community sports

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Tue, 6 Dec 2022, 5:40pm

Sport New Zealand has released new guiding principles allowing transgender athletes to participate in community sports in the gender they identify as. 

Sport NZ chief executive Raelene Castle says that this is being done in the name of creating a more inclusive environment.

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave says that the issue of inclusivity is a complicated factor in sports and that these guidelines will generate discussion.

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