Sports

Welcome to the TENI Sports Inclusion Digital Toolkit!

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Please download our Sports Inclusion guides for schools and sports clubs.

We are also happy to reveal our Sports National Governing Bodies (hereafter as NGB’s) Policy Tracker! This tracker will be a database of all NGB policies relating to trans people participating and competing in sports. Currently, the tracker does not have all of the NGB’s policies, as we haven’t been able to contact them all yet. We aim to update throughout the Sports for All project.

We created this tracker so that the trans community in Ireland can have access to the information around participating and competing in sports. We hope this will encourage the community to be aware of the current policy landscape in Ireland, and to get more involved in sports. We hope that you will find this tracker easy to use, and we suggest coming back to it in the future when we have more information. If you have any issues using the tracker, please contact us at office@teni.ie

Sport Governing Body	Have a gender inclusive policy?	Link to Policy	Can Trans People Participate?	Can Trans People Compete?
American Football Ireland	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Angling Council of Ireland	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Archery Ireland	Yes	Archery Ireland Transgender Policy	Yes	Yes with Restrictions
Athletics Ireland	No	N/A	Unknown	Unknown
Badminton Ireland	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Basketball Ireland	Yes	Basketball Ireland Trans Policy	Yes	No, only trans men permitted
Baton Twirling Sport Association of Ireland	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Irish Road Bowling Association	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Irish Lawn Bowls	Yes	Irish Lawn Bowls Policy	Yes	Yes
Canoeing Ireland	Yes	Verbally confirmed, no written policy	Yes	Unknown
Cricket Ireland	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Croquet Association of Ireland	Yes	Croquet Association of Ireland Transgender Policy	Yes	Yes, with restrictions
Cycling Ireland	Yes	Transgender Participation Policy	Yes	No, only trans men permitted
Deaf Sports Ireland	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Diving Ireland	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Fencing Ireland	No	N/A	Unknown	Unknown
Football Association of Ireland	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
GAA Handball Ireland	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Gaelic Athletic Association	Yes	GAA Inclusion Policy	Yes	Yes
Golf Ireland	Yes	Policy not available, currently being updated	Yes	Unknown
Gymnastics Ireland	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Hockey Ireland	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Horse Sport Ireland	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Ice Skating Association of Ireland	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Irish Amateur Wrestling Association	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Irish Athletic Boxing Association	Yes	IABA Diversity and Inclusion Policy	Yes	Yes
Irish Clay Target Shooting Association	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Irish Ice Hockey Association	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Irish Judo Association	Yes	Irish Judo Association Trans Policy	Yes	Yes, with restrictions
Irish Martial Arts Commission	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Irish OIympic Handball	Yes	Verbally confirmed, no written policy	Yes	Unknown
Orienteering Ireland	Yes	Orienteering Ireland Trans Policy	Yes	Yes, with restrictions
Irish Rugby Football Union	Yes	IRFU Gender Participation Policy	No, only trans men permitted	No, only trans men permitted
Irish Sailing	No	N/A	Unknown	Unknown
Irish Special Schools	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Irish Squash	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Irish Surfing	No	N/A	Unknown	Unknown
Irish Tenpin Bowling Association	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Irish Waterski & Wakeboard Federation	No	N/A	Yes	Yes, with restrictions
Irish Wheelchair Association – Sport	No	N/A	Unknown	Unknown
Ladies Gaelic Football Association	Yes	LGFA Trans Policy	Yes	Yes
Motorcycling Ireland	No	N/A	Yes	Yes
Motorsport Ireland	No	N/A	Yes	Yes, with restrictions
Mountaineering Ireland	No	N/A	Yes	Yes
National Aero Club of Ireland	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
National Community Games	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Official National Amateur Karate Association of Ireland	Yes	ONAKAI Equality Policy	Yes	Yes
Pitch and Putt Ireland	No	N/A	Unknown	Unknown
Racquetball Ireland	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Rowing Ireland	No	N/A	Unknown	Unknown
Rugby League Ireland	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Snooker & Billiards Ireland	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Special Olympics Ireland	Yes	Guidelines for Inclusion of Transgender Participants in Special Olympics	Yes	Yes
Speleological Union of Ireland	Yes	SUI Diversity and Equality Policy	Yes	Yes
Student Sport Ireland	Yes	SSI Eligibility Criteria – Student Sport	Yes	Unknown
Swim Ireland	Yes	Inclusion | Swim Ireland	Yes	Yes, with restrictions
Table Tennis Ireland	No	N/A	Unknown	Unknown
Taekwondo Ireland	Yes	ELIGIBILITY REGULATIONS FOR TRANSGENDER ATHLETES	Yes	Yes, with restrictions
Tennis Ireland	No	N/A	Unknown	Unknown
The Camogie Association	No	N/A	Unknown	Unknown
Triathlon Ireland	Yes	TRI_Gender_Eligibility_Guidelines	Yes	Yes, with restrictions
Trout Anglers Federation of Ireland	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Tug of War Ireland	No	N/A	Unknown	Unknown
Vision Sports Ireland	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Volleyball Ireland	No	N/A	Unknown	Unknown
Weightlifting Ireland	Yes	International Weightlifting Federation Updates Gender Identity Policy, Announces New Division | BarBend	Yes	Yes, with restrictions