Data.

Sport and Gender-Based Violence Policies and Legislation

The Global Sport Policy Tracker and The Global Observatory for Gender Equality & Sport have collaborated to develop the Sport and Gender-Based Violence Policies and Legislation dataset. Find the data here.

We have curated data from 12 countries on: what forms of GBV are criminalised; age of minority and consent; GBV legislation and policies and whether they consider/include sport; national level sport policies and whether they include GBV; national safe sport initiatives; duty to Report abuse/violence against children; screening of sport workers; international agreements and conventions.

The dataset is FREE to use, just cite us: Global Observatory for Gender Equality & Sport, & Global Sport Policy Tracker. (2025). Sport and Gender Based Violence Policy and Legislation (Version 1) [Data set]. GO & GSPT. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17708940

International Sport Federation Gender Policies

The International Sport Federation Gender Policy dataset is now live on our Zenodo and GitHub pages

To help organisations and sport federations better understand what other sports around them are doing, we have created a dataset of the policies regarding participation of transgender and non-binary athletes, as well as athletes with differences of sexual development (DSDs). We have also collected data on whether each sport is considered to be 'gender affected', and whether the sport federation requires any form of gender/sex testing in order to participate in some or all of their events for a particular gender.

Full codebook and interpretation guide for each of the indicators can be found here

In the dataset, you will find archived links to the sources of policy information - this ensures that if the organisation removes the documentation from their public facing websites, you will still be able to access the policy as it was announced. You will also find a "notes" section of each policy indicator - this gives an in-depth explanation of the policy in place as stated by the International Sport Federation (IF).

This data is NOT meant to be used or considered as a statement on whether or not certain individuals should participate in sport - it has been developed to help aid and support the difficult conversations that are happening within sporting organisations around the world, and to allow for systematic and consistent comparison of international sport federation policies.

To use this dataset for your own work, please cite as: Cameron-Blake, E. (2025). International Sport Federation Gender Policies (Version 1.0) [Data set]. Global Sport Policy Tracker. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17672460

This dataset will expand as we add more International Sport Federations, and the regulations of large international multi-sport organisation (i.e., IOC, Commonwealth Games Federation, etc)

For any questions on this data, or if you would like to sumit data to be considered in the tracker, please contact info@sportpolicytracker.com

The Global Sport Policy Tracker is always working hard behind the scenes to put together free for use (just cite us!) data for researchers, policy makers, and those who work in sport development and governance.

Systematically collecting data, reviewing it for accuracy, and keeping the data up to date is a time intensive process, so bear with us - we will continuously release data as it is ready to be shared.

All data collected is available through our GitHub repositories.