Some interesting facts and figures:
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FIFA only decided in 2014 to lift the ban on playing with head scarves
which opened up opportunities for previously excluded players (source);
The Giro is currently the only Grand Tour that offers a female version of
itself (source);
The first official women’s soccer world cup was held in China in 1991;
Prior to 2003 no sport organization had any policy at all governing
participation of transgender athletes. The International Olympic
Committee was the first mainstream sport governing body to develop a
policy governing the participation of transgender athletes in the Olympic
Games which became effective in the 2004 Games in Greece.
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