Mick Hartley

From the Telegraph:

British Rowing is expected to announce a dramatic abandoning of its controversial transgender policy on Thursday by restricting the women’s category solely to those born female, Telegraph Sport can reveal.

After months of intense discussion at board level, the governing body has decided to follow the majority view of its 31,500 members, more than 80 per cent of whom are understood to have urged a change in approach that would ensure the fairness and integrity of the female category.

Quite why it took months of "intense discussion" to decide that men shouldn't be allowed to compete in the women's category – especially given that rowing is such an intensely physical muscular sport – remains something of a mystery. But yes, progress…