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read more20th June 2022 - New FINA policy effectively bans transgender athletes from competing in women’s swimming events
18th June 2022 - UCI rules that trans women must wait two years to be eligible for competition
28th May 2022 - World records tumble at 2022 Australian Swimming Championships in Adelaide
23rd May 2022 - Melbourne to replace Russia as host of FINA swimming world championships
26th April 2022 - Australian Olympic Committee and Swimming Australia threaten lobby group with legal action over trans women’s sport billboards
8th April 2022 - Australian Olympic Committee records small profit despite COVID challenges and fall in sponsorship revenue
22nd March 2022 - World Athletics President warns that transgender athletes pose risk to integrity of women’s sport
22nd February 2022 - Australian Prime Minister voices support for Parliamentary bill to exclude transgender people from women’s sport
12th February 2022 - Swimming Australia names Tracy Stockwell as new President
11th February 2022 - Australian Olympic Committee launches digital hub for Beijing 2022 fan engagement
9th February 2022 - Jodie Hawkins announced as Swimming Australia’s new General Manager Commercial and Marketing
3rd February 2022 - Swimming Australia retains April trials amid FINA World Championships postponment until 2023
21st January 2022 - Swimming Australia announces ‘unreserved apology’ over historic abuse of young female athletes
22nd December 2021 - Myrtha Pools extends FINA partnership for four more years
26th November 2021 - International Olympic Committee releases new guidance on inclusion of transgender athletes
12th October 2021 - World swimming body FINA to establish integrity unit
2nd June 2021 - Save Womens Sport Australasia petitions against Sport NZ’s guidelines on Transgender Players
1st June 2021 - Debate continues on New Zealand’s guidelines for transgender athletes
11th October 2020 - World Rugby’s updated transgender guidelines ban transwomen playing at elite level
30th July 2019 - Controversy mounts over transgender athlete’s weightlifting gold medal at Pacific Games
1st August 2017 - Cycling Australia introduces new transgender athlete policy
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