An “open” category to allow transgender swimmers to compete at the highest level.

It is the project of the International Federation (Fina), whose president Husain Al-Musallam evoked the broad outlines, Sunday, in Budapest.

"I don't want an athlete to be told that he cannot compete at the highest level," Al-Musallam told an extraordinary congress of the body held during the World Championships ​.

“I will set up a working group to create an open category during our competitions.

We will be the first federation to do so.

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