The Ladies Gaelic Football Association (LGFA) has said it is developing a policy around transgender players after an objection to a biological male identifying as a woman played in a ladies’ shield final in Dublin.

Na Gaeil Aeracha, the GAA’s first openly LGBT club, beat Na Fianna’s ladies E team in the Dublin Junior J Shield football final last Wednesday.

The referee stopped the game after the first break in play to tell Na Gaeil Aeracha that there was “a problem with your number 21” and told them “the player is a man”.

Na Gaeil Aeracha’s captain said that the player, Giulia Valentino, was a trans woman but the referee said “this is the Ladies’ Gaelic football association”.

Valentino played on and was later taken off as a blood substitute but returned and played until half time when a substitute came on.