Welcome to the top women’s rugby news in under 60 seconds for Jul 18-24. England will hold a vote on a gender policy tomorrow which includes banning transgender athletes. We stand with our trans sisters and maintain that trans women are women. We support the IOC guidelines of inclusion of trans athletes and that rugby truly is for EVERYONE.

In International XVs news, Canada defeated Italy while Japan beat South Africa 15-6. There are 15 more matches to come before the 2021 Rugby World Cup…so buckle up!

In domestic XVs news, Canterbury had back-to-back wins in the Farah Palmer Cup Premiership and leads the league with Auckland, Bay of Plenty, Waiktao and Wellington chasing.

In 7s news, the 2022 Commonwealth Games begin tomorrow and World Rugby revealed the matchups for the 2022 Rugby World Cup 7s. The event is a ‘winner-takes-all’ knockout format with winning teams going through to the Championship and losers falling to the Challenge bracket, and England, Scotland and Wales have confirmed that they will re-form the Great Britain 7s team ahead of the 2022/2023 HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series.

We close out the week with 11 features and 3 media.

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tl;dr: Women’s Rugby in 60 secs for Jul 18-24 includes England voting on whether to ban transgender athletes from the sport that claims to be for all and Canada defeated Italy while Japan beat South Africa.