International Sport Federation Gender Policies

A dataset of policies of international sport federations on inclusion/participation of athletes with DSDs, or who are transgender or non-binary. Also considers gender testing and whether the sport is considered to be 'gender affected'

To help organisations and sport federations better understand what other sports around them are doing, we have created a dataset of the policies regarding participation of transgender and non-binary athletes, as well as athletes with differences of sexual developement (DSDs). We have also collected data on whether each sport is considered to be 'gender affected', and whether the sport federation requires any form of gender/sex testing in order to participate in some or all of their events for a particular gender.

Full codebook and interpretation guide for each of the indicators can be found in the attached codebook file, in our GitHub repository here

In the dataset, you will find archived links to the sources of policy information - this ensures that if the organisation removes the documentation from their public facing websites, you will still be able to access the policy as it was announced. You will also find a "notes" section of each policy indicator - this gives an indepth explanation of the policy in place as stated by the International Sport Federation (IF).

This data is NOT meant to be used or considered as a statement on whether or not certain individuals should participate in sport - it has been developed to help aid and support the difficult conversations that are happening within sporting organisations around the world, and to allow for systematic and consistent comparison of international sport federation policies.

This dataset will expand as we add more International Sport Federations, and also the regulations of large international multisport organisation (i.e., IOC, Commonwealth Games Federation, etc)

UPDATE: This new version contains the new IOC Policy on the Protection of the Female (Women's) Category in Olympic Sport. As IFs change and update their policies in response, we will endeavour to update this dataset. All files on GitHub have also been updated.

For any questions on this data, or if you would like to sumit data to be considered in the tracker, please contact info@sportpolicytracker.com