Scottish Rugby is altering its guidelines from 1 February to ban transgender girls from competing involved variations of the ladies’s recreation.
The SRU has stated “contact rugby for gamers within the girls’s class is proscribed to these whose intercourse was recorded as feminine at delivery”.
Scottish Rugby estimates the taking part in inhabitants of trans individuals in Scotland to be fewer than 10.
The transfer follows earlier choices by the English, Irish and Welsh unions.
The brand new coverage takes into consideration steering from World Rugby and the UK-wide Sports activities Councils’ Equality Group.
Transgender girls might beforehand take part in contact variations of the ladies’s recreation in Scotland relying on the result of a “thorough medical course of together with testosterone exams” previous to registration to play.
Scottish Rugby stated: “We acknowledge that that is an evolving house, and we are going to proceed to evaluate all accessible info because it emerges.”
Transgender males might proceed to play contact rugby within the males’s class supplied a threat evaluation has been undertaken by their membership and the result logged with the SRU.
A press release on the Scottish Rugby web site stated: “All of us have a accountability to take care of the members in our recreation, with their wellbeing and security on the centre of all the things we do.
“We totally acknowledge this can be a troublesome and sadly divisive societal problem, and that has been particularly obvious over the previous couple of months. Scottish Rugby has been aware of this and aimed to take care of the problem in a delicate method.
“Scottish Rugby needs to be as inclusive as attainable and is barely imposing such eligibility restrictions based mostly on the steering supplied. The choice to amend our eligibility standards was not taken evenly as we search to handle conflicting viewpoints.
“Our gender participation coverage recognises the necessity to stability concerns of security and equity with our underlying need to be as inclusive as attainable.
“At this second in time, Scottish Rugby has opted to decide which places security first, based mostly on the present analysis.”