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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 athleteSociety 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’ genitalsOhio’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...

Tabloid Mails it in on coverage of trans athlete

Lia Thomas, the Penn swimmer whose teammates tried to get her banned from competition because she’s trans, turned in a dominant swim at the Ivy League championships Thursday. Her performance, along with that of Yale’s Iszac Henig, sparked coverage by the Daily Mail, and writer Alex Hammer provided a...

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....