Varadkar says IRFU should listen to trans players ‘excluded’ from contact rugby

Leo Varadkar during a Six Nations match at the Aviva Stadium, Dublin. (Brian Lawless/PA)

Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has said it is important for the IRFU to listen to the people who may be excluded from playing sport, after the rugby organisation announced a decision to ban trans women from playing contact rugby.

Speaking from Roscommon town for the opening of Fine Gael Senator Aisling Dolan’s office, Mr Varadkar said: “I think it’s something that sporting bodies in Ireland and around the world are really struggling with.