Dozens of academics have criticised World Rugby’s proposals to ban trans women from playing women’s rugby by writing to the sport’s governing body to insist there is ‘no evidence’ that trans women pose a safety risk to others playing the sport.The letter, reported in The Guardian, was co-signed by 84 leading academics from a range of fields including sport, public health and sociology.
It said:‘We are opposed to World Rugby’s proposed ban of an entire population group from playing women’s rugby: non-binary people assumed male at birth and transgender women.