Last Friday, South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson joined 23 other states in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear an Arizona case to protect girls’ and women’s sports. “Sports teams are divided by sex to begin with to give girls a level playing field so they’re not competing against boys,” Attorney General Wilson said.…
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The Sport and Recreation Law Association (SRLA), whose mission is to further the study and dissemination of information regarding legal aspects of sport and recreation, announced today that it has published Safe at First, making it available through its distribution partner, Hackney Publications, at https://pubs.hackneypublications.com/SRLA/subscribe.html “This is the most detailed risk management guide ever written…
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Even more female volleyball teams have been forced to forfeit matches “to protect their players from the high and now well-documented risk of serious injury when being required to play against one or more men who identify as female,” said John Banzhaf, Professor of Public Interest Law atGeorge Washington University Law School The Nevada women’s volleyball…
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(Editor’s Note: What follows is an exclusive piece from tonight’s Sports Litigation Alert.) By Gil Fried, Professor/Associate Dean, Lewis Bear Jr. College pf Business, University of West Florida The 2024 Paris Olympics were epic for many reasons. There were phenomenal athletes who did some great things. Similar to all Olympics, there were controversies. Those controversies included…
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America First Legal (AFL) and its co-counsel, Christopher Mills, filed an amicus brief yesterday in defense of West Virginia’s Save Women’s Sports Act, which requires students to compete “based on their biological sex.” After the District Court upheld the Act as constitutional, the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the decision. The Fourth Circuit’s…
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The Court for Arbitration in Switzerland has rejected a complaint by M2F transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, who argued that attempts to prevent her from competing in elite women’s races are invalid, unlawful and discriminatory, according to GWU Public Interest Law Professor John Banzhaf. The professor noted that the decision was based on the major athletic…
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Winston negotiated a settlement between Natalie Ryan, a transgender female athlete, and the Professional Disc Golf Association (PDGA), which makes her and other transgender women who have completed two years of hormone therapy eligible to compete in the female professional open division at all PDGA events. As part of the settlement agreement, the PDGA dropped…
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Tomorrow morning, current and former NCAA female athletes, coaches, and parents will rally outside of the 2024 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Convention in Phoenix, Arizona, to demand that the organization “stop discriminating against female athletes by allowing males to compete in women’s sports.” The rally’s theme, “We Won’t Back Down,” reflects the determination of…
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USA Boxing, the governing body of the sport in the United States, has adopted a new rule which would permit males (M2F trans athletes) to compete against women in a sport which requires competitors to inflict as much harm as possible upon their opponent by punching them in the head and body, according to George…
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U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (Missouri) sent the following letter NCAA President Charlie Baker yesterday, questioning the association’s policy about permitting transgender athletes in the locker room with biological female athletes. It reads as follows: Yesterday you testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on issues in collegiate athletics. Arguably none is more important than the safety…
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