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Ro Edge: Save Women's Sport on Government tells Sport NZ to scrap transgender guidelines · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The government has told Sport New Zealand to scrap its
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  Speaker 1: transgender guidelines. Can like completely scrap them. It was originally
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  Speaker 1: asked to review them, now being told just stay out
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  Speaker 1: of it all together. Thank you very much. Individual sports
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  Speaker 1: organizations will continue to make the call around gender and
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  Speaker 1: community sport. Row Edges from Save Women's Sport joins me
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  Speaker 1: this morning, Row, good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning line.
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  Speaker 1: They were only guidelines to begin with. Is this a
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  Speaker 1: big deal?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is because unfortunately sport needs doing to hold
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  Speaker 2: the funding leaders for sports throughout the country, and so
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  Speaker 2: they all felt compelled to adopt them. You know, we
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  Speaker 2: really welcome this decision to dump them because it supported
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  Speaker 2: boys and men in the male advantage claying and girls
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  Speaker 2: and women's sport, and it was an ideological policy that
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  Speaker 2: while the intent I know was honorable, it was obviously
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  Speaker 2: injective to include males who identify as females and women's
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  Speaker 2: sport couldn't be done without compromising seness and sagetography email athletes.
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  Speaker 1: This is we're talking about community sports here, right, It's
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  Speaker 1: not elite sport, is there?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 1: But is that not a different kettle of fish?
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  Speaker 2: It is totally not a different kill of fish. Community
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  Speaker 2: sports is all sport up until you represent your country,
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  Speaker 2: So it includes regional competitions, national age grade competitions. It
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  Speaker 2: is the pathway through to allege sports. You know, it's
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  Speaker 2: the ends in safety matters at elite level, it matters
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  Speaker 2: at community level too.
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  Speaker 1: Ro what happens because it's the individual organizations, the bodies
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  Speaker 1: that set their own rules. So do you think that
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  Speaker 1: they will listen to this or not listen to this?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what have any of them changed their rules
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  Speaker 1: based on the old guidelines to begin with?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they already have tras on New Zealand and boxing.
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  Speaker 2: New Zealand have already moved to change their guidelines and
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  Speaker 2: they protect the female category, and a lot of other
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  Speaker 2: sports have had theirs in review. I think waiting on
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  Speaker 2: this decision, the landscape of transgender inclusion sport has evolved
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  Speaker 2: significantly since those guiding principles were first introduced. At the time,
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  Speaker 2: sports did need some help because the IOC had made
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  Speaker 2: this announcement which stunned the world opening up the female
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  Speaker 2: category and treating women as nothing more than men with
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  Speaker 2: lower testosterone. But most international sporting federations now has moved
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  Speaker 2: to protect the female category and this allows our national
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  Speaker 2: federations to follow foods.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, right, do you hate trains people? This is whatever.
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  Speaker 2: We want. We want everyone to be included and but
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  Speaker 2: we play sport with our bodies, not our identities, so
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  Speaker 2: it needs to be in the category of your biological tech.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate your time this morning, wrote Edge Save Women Sport
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  Speaker 1: Australasia New Zealand spokesperson.
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  Speaker 2: For more from earlier edition with Ryan Bridge.
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