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Ensuring fairness and safety in sport

The Fairness and Safety in Sport Act (Bill 29) ensures athletes are able to participate in the sports they love fairly, safely, and meaningfully.

Status: The Fairness and Safety in Sport Act and regulation came into force on September 1, 2025.

Ministry responsible: Tourism and Sport

Overview

The Fairness and Safety in Sport Act (formerly Bill 29) establishes a balanced approach to protect the integrity of female athletic competitions by ensuring women and girls have the opportunity to compete in biological female-only divisions, while also ensuring transgender athletes are able to meaningfully participate in the sports of their choice.

The Fairness and Safety in Sport Act requires in-scope organizations to create and implement policies for athlete eligibility that align with requirements set out in the regulation, including limiting eligibility for female-only divisions to biologically female athletes. The Act also supports the expansion and creation of mixed-sex leagues, classes or divisions, where numbers warrant.

Alberta’s government consulted with provincial sport organizations, post-secondary institutions, school authorities, coaches, parents, athletes, members of the transgender community and other subject matter experts to help inform Alberta’s approach to creating a more fair and safe sport system in the province.

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