 — A transgender female player has been blocked from joining the second-tier of Australia’s women’s national basketball league after a panel ruled her ineligible to compete at the sport’s elite level.){kind=link}
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A transgender female player has been blocked from joining the second-tier of Australia’s women’s national basketball league after a panel ruled her ineligible to compete at the sport’s elite level.
Lexi Rodgers last month revealed in a podcast that she was applying to play in for the Kilsyth Cobras, a Melbourne-based club in Australia’s NBL1 South competition, saying she wanted to put a face to the “trans player” being mentioned in local debate in mainstream and social media.
Basketball Australia issued a statement Tuesday saying its three-member expert panel had deemed Rodgers to be ineligible to play in the NBL1 this season.
The sport’s national governing body said it assessed the eligibility of prospective transgender players on a case-by-case basis at the professional and semiprofessional…