gender - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights

Republican-sponsored anti-LGBTQ bills attacking transgender youth participation in sports reaches new lowRepublicans en masse across the country haven’t made it clear what they truly stand for outside of hating others and tolerating racism and all forms of bigotry. They’re more afraid and concerned of Black peaceful protestors and children properly identifying their sexuality than insurrectionists, mas...

Clay Travis is using a school shooting to promote transphobiaThe reality of this world is that everyone with influence is not going to treat it with the respect that they should. Influence is a form of power. Of the many lessons I’ve learned in ⅓ of a century on this planet is that when people finally grasp a bit of power, many of them have only two goals: To...

Trans women are not destroying women’s sportsThe policies to determine someone’s “biological sex” are getting weirder and weirder — not to mention illogical. Just this month Florida tried to institute a policy to track the period data of female students, only dropping the idea after severe backlash. There are many reasons a cis girl might not ...

The next 50 years of Title IX will focus on the female trans athlete

Society once felt a way about new facilities and amenities for female athletes. Those same feelings are here again with trans athletes....

The Ohio GOP would like to ‘inspect’ your daughters’ genitals

Ohio’s ban on trans youth in sports is the epitome of the conservative culture war on the LGBTQ community. Their obsession has reached pathological levels. Last week, Ohio’s Republican-dominated House approved a bill requiring genital inspections to prevent transgender female athletes from competing...

Coed sports can be a thing

For all the energy devoted to the Lia Thomas story, you’d think there was an army of transitioning athletes looking to snatch Division I titles from the women who rightfully won them. Laws have been written, passed, vetoed and passed again to prevent people assigned one sex at birth from competing w...

In the Olympics – and everywhere – trans women <i>are</i> women

You know, we don’t really have to keep doing this every time the situation comes up....

More High School Girls Are Playing Tackle Football Than Ever

No high schools in America offer a girls tackle football team. If a girl wants to play football, she has to go out for the boys’ team. There’s no guarantee that she’ll make the team, but Title IX guarantees that every sport offered only to boys at the high school level has to allow girls a fair sho...