FOOTBALLERS with differences of sexual development (DSD) should be free to play in the female game without restrictions, a new report has recommended.

There appears to be “no legitimate basis” to exclude them, a report produced with support from the Fifa Research Scholarship has said.

The report by Dr Seema Patel, an associate professor in law at Nottingham Trent University, also says medical requirements could not be imposed on DSD players as a condition of participation, because Fifa would be at risk of breaching its own human rights obligations.