transgender-athletes - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights

Meet The Swamp Ghouls Manufacturing A Trans-Athlete Panic Out Of Thin AirOne would think that in the same week the county that houses Chattanooga, Tennessee was named as one of the five-fastest-growing hot spots for coronavirus in the nation, Tennessee’s state Legislature might have more important things to do than weigh transphobic legislation....

CeCe Telfer's National Title Emphasizes The Catch-22 Of Being A Trans AthleteBecause a large percentage of social conservatives only feign interest in women’s sports when trans women compete in them, CeCe Telfer is the most famous NCAA Division II track athlete in the country. Telfer, a senior at Franklin Pierce University, has drawn anger and outrage from all the usual grif...

She's Got The Strength, But Who Has The Power?JayCee Cooper was looking forward to her first sanctioned USA Powerlifting meet in her home state of Minnesota when she received word, just a month before the event, that she wouldn’t be allowed to compete....

A Transgender Anti-Discrimination Law Won't Mark The End Of Women's Sports

The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing yesterday to discuss the Equality Act, a bill that would create a national ban on discrimination against LGBT people—something that only a minority of states legally prohibit at the moment. In the wake of some major gains for queer and trans people in thi...

The First Openly Trans Professional Hockey Player Is Retiring

Harrison Browne came out publicly as transgender in an ESPN interview just before the second season of the NWHL opened in October. Born Hailey Browne, the 23-year-old had been out to his friends, family, and college coaches since sophomore year at the University of Maine, but the interview made him ...

Here Are The Best States To Be A Transgender High School Athlete

As reported by the Times earlier this month, new legislation in California could make that state the first to legally guarantee the rights of transgender high school athletes. California has already joined a group of more than half a dozen states with school policies that allow transgender athletes ...