The Ballarat Netball Association has supported a new policy aimed at helping transgender and gender diverse athletes compete in elite competitions.
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Netball Australia was one of eight national sporting organisations to release new policies and guidelines around the inclusion of trans and gender diverse people.
Under the new policy, transgender and gender diverse people who test as having less than five nanomoles of testosterone per litre of blood for at least a 24-month period would be eligible for selection within netball's elite competitions.
That's been our position for the last 50 years."
- Jo Dash
BNA president Jo Dash said the BNA's motto was 'sport for all.'
"We've always felt that anyone who wants to play should be encouraged and helped and we are very supportive of sport for all," she said.
"That's been our position for the last 50 years."
The move followed an announcement earlier this week that a coalition of netball's peak organisations has pledged to take action to break down barriers preventing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander players, coaches, umpires and administrators from flourishing in the sport.
It came as a result of intensive discussion in which key decision-makers turned the microscope on the system and also themselves.
