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IOC announces ban of transgender women athletes
The International Olympic Committee has banned transgender women from competing at the Olympics, starting with the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles.,"Eligibility for any female category event at the Olympic Games or any other IOC event, including individual and team sports, is now limited to biologi...
IOC: Sports leaders reach consensus on new gender policy
MILAN -- Global sports leaders have reached consensus on a new set of eligibility criteria for transgender athletes, with the new policy expected to be announced within the first half of this year, the International Olympic Committee said Saturday.,It would be the first uniform policy adopted by the...
DOJ sues California over trans athlete participation
The Department of Justice followed through on a threat to sue the California public school system, taking legal action on Wednesday in a case involving a transgender high school athlete.,The filing in the Central District of California targets a pair of defendants, the California Department of Educa...
DOJ: California could be sued over participation of trans athletes
California's public school system could face legal issues if it continues to permit transgender athletes to take part in girls' athletic competitions.,The Athletic reported Tuesday that Harmeet K. Dhillon, an assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, said in a ...
N.H. athletes sue to block Trump's ban on trans athletes
One week after President Donald Trump signed an executive order barring transgender athletes from participating in women's sports, two high schoolers are attempting to block the move.,A lawsuit filed by two students last August challenging New Hampshire's exclusion of transgender athletes from girls...
NCAA bans biological males from women's sports
One day after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to protect women's sports, the NCAA announced Thursday that athletes assigned male at birth are ineligible to play on women's teams.,Trump unveiled the "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports" order on Wednesday. It bans transgender athletes ...
Texas AG sues NCAA over transgender participation
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the NCAA in an attempt to prevent transgender athletes from competing in women's college sports, according to a release issued on Paxton's website Sunday.,Paxton's lawsuit, filed in state district court in Lubbock, requests an injunction that would restrict the...
R&A's new gender policy aligns with USGA, LPGA
The R&A is joining other major golf organizations in enacting what it calls a "fair competition policy" regarding transgender athletes.,Last week, the LPGA and USGA announced eligibility requirements for transgender women, and the R&A followed suit Thursday. Next year, the organization said in a sta...
The war on trans girls in sports is going exactly the way we thought it would
When I was in school, I had a friend who was a fantastic athlete (she still is). She was tall, thin, wore her hair short and could keep up with any of the guys in gym class and outperform 90 percent of them in just about any sport. She didnât wear makeup and her wardrobe consisted mostly of gender-n...
Florida is predictably Florida in banning transgender athlete
A high school in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. has banned a transgender girl from playing on its girlsâ volleyball team for 11 months due to âthe Fairness in Womenâs Sports Act,â which states that transgender women and girls can not compete on girlsâ public school sports teams. ...
Republican-sponsored anti-LGBTQ bills attacking transgender youth participation in sports reaches new low
Republicans en masse across the country havenât made it clear what they truly stand for outside of hating others and tolerating racism and all forms of bigotry. Theyâre 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 transphobia
The 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 Iâve learned in â of a century on this planet is that when people finally grasp a bit of power, many of them have only two goals: To...
Andrew Bogutâs lack of comprehension about transgender people and Girl Dads is alarming
Itâs hard to quantify team chemistry. Thereâs no proven formula to get a group of guys to like each other, and even if they do, it doesnât always remain that way. So count âAndrew Bogutâs removalâ among the many things that went the Golden State Warriorsâ way over the past seven to eight years. Beca...
Trans women are not destroying womenâs sports
The policies to determine someoneâs âbiological sexâ are getting weirder and weirder â 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 ...
No one cares about batting practice
I get it. In a lot of the country, itâs that part of the winter where it seems like it might never end (though itâs been quite mild here). The charm of spring training, whatever anyone tells you, is merely seeing the sun and warmth (though it was quite cold in Arizona recently). When the games start...
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 âinspectâ your daughtersâ genitals
Ohioâs 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, Ohioâs Republican-dominated House approved a bill requiring genital inspections to prevent transgender female athletes from competing...
Lia Thomas is first trans athlete to win a NCAA title
Lia Thomas became first known transgender athlete to win a Division I national championship in any sport after finishing the 500-yard freestyle for Penn. yesterday in four minutes and 33.24 seconds, defeating Virginia freshman Emma Weyant to take home the gold for the Quakers....
USWNT shows their support for transgender youth in Texas, following governorâs letter
The United States Womenâs National Team was in Texas last night, which could not have come at a better time after news went viral from the stateâs governorâs office....
Lia Thomas wins right to compete at NCAA Championships
Since University of Pennsylvania senior Lia Thomas crushed her competition at the Zippy Invitational with the nationâs fastest times in the 200- and 500-yard freestyle, she became a cause cĂ©lĂšbre in the crosshairs of the NCAAâs latest transgender athletes brouhaha....