British Cycling sets deadline for new transgender inclusion policy

Organisation set on new policy publication in Spring 2023

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Emily Bridges was blocked from competition earlier this year
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British Cycling has committed itself to a deadline of spring 2023 to publish its new transgender inclusion policy. 

The national governing body attracted controversy in April after blocking new trans riders from competing as it suspended its policy on transgender and non-binary athletes, pending a full review. 

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Tom Thewlis
News and Features Writer

After previously working in higher education, Tom joined Cycling Weekly in 2022 and hasn't looked back. He's been covering professional cycling ever since; reporting on the ground from some of the sport's biggest races and events, including the Tour de France, Paris-Roubaix and the World Championships. His earliest memory of a bike race is watching the Tour on holiday in the early 2000's in the south of France - he even made it on to the podium in Pau afterwards. His favourite place that cycling has taken him is Montréal in Canada.