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Law Review Article Examines Transgender Youth in Athletics from Legal, Theoretical, and Policy Perspectives

May 16, 2023

By Laurel White A new law review article from UW–Madison School of Education faculty uses a multidisciplinary approach to shed more light on the legal, social, and political discussions surrounding transgender students’ participation in elementary and high school athletics. Since 2021, lawmakers in more than 30 states have proposed bills mandating the exclusion of K-12 transgender…
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After Suffering Concussion at the Hands of Transgender Athlete, High School Volleyball Player Becomes Spokeswoman

May 10, 2023

A high school volleyball player in. North Carolina, who suffered a concussion when she was spiked in the face by a transgender athlete, has emerged as a leading spokeswoman for female athletes, who would like to prevent biological males from competing in women’s sports. Payton McNabb claims the concussion has caused significant and long-term physical…
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Professor Explains Why Most M2F Transgender Athletes Are Being Banned From Female Events

March 27, 2023

By Professor John Banzhaf, George Washington University Following the lead of World Rugby, World Swimming, and the Rugby Football League, World Athletics has just banned most biological males who believe themselves to be female [often called trans women] from competing in female sporting events unless they avoided going through puberty as males. The organization’s stated…
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Latest Issue of Sports Litigation Alert Touches on FTX, NIL, Coaching Contracts, Harvard Lawsuit and Many, Many Other Current Developments in Sports Law

March 14, 2023

Hackney Publications announced today that it was making its latest issue of Sports Litigation Alert, published on February 24, 2023, the new sample issue on the site, a reflection of the issue’s “strength,” according to Editor and Publisher Holt Hackney. “We pride ourselves on providing provocative insight and thought leadership on the sports law issues…
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Attorney Calls Out Hypocrisy in Texas’ Stance on Blocking Transgender Athletes

February 23, 2023

Chris Deubert, Senior Counsel at Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete LLP and senior writer for Hackney Publications, recently wrote the following: Texas is reportedly considering legislation that would ban transgender athletes from participating on athletic teams at colleges in Texas. Such a law would be a major deviation from the historical role played by the government…
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Five Olympic Rowers Protest US Rowing’s Gender Identity Policy in Newsweek: ‘Our Sport is Discriminating Against Females’

February 3, 2023

The letter in Newsweek begins: USRowing rejected fairness for female rowers of all ages and levels with the release of its updated Gender Identity Policy on December 1. We are a group of former Olympic rowers, and we are enraged that USRowing would adopt a policy that so blatantly discriminates against female athletes in rowing. The…
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ChampionWomen: Access to Female Athletes’ Locker Rooms Should Be Restricted to Female Athletes

January 24, 2023

From ChampionWomen this morning: Girls’ and women’s locker rooms have been designed exclusively for people who have female[1] bodies, and for good reasons. Those reasons include biological differences between women and men; women’s right to privacy; and protection from male violence against women in such forms as sexual harassment, assault, and rape. These reasons remain…
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International Consortium on Female Sport Launched to ‘Preserve Women’s Sports Category’

January 10, 2023

The new International Consortium on Female Sport(ICFS) launched globally, debuting January 9, 2023, as the preeminent international lobby group to advocate for the preservation of the female sport category worldwide. This comes at a time when more international governing sports bodies, including the International Olympic Committee (IOC), are opening female sport to male competitors. “Fifty…
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Professor Maintains that Trans Athletes Causing Serious Injuries to Girls

December 12, 2022

A second M2F transgender athlete has caused serious and possibly permanent injuries to a biological female opponent, this time in a hockey tournament where a much larger and more heavily muscled player crashed into a much smaller opponent, notes public interest law professor John Banzhaf, who says risk of serious injury creates a new strong…
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Sports Lawyer and Former Olympian Makes the Case for the Female Sports Category

October 4, 2022

This week on the Dr. Phil Show, Olympic champion, women’s sports advocate, and lawyer Nancy Hogshead-Makar speaks on the importance of the female sports category. She explains “issues related to transgender eligibility in sport and urges sport to create new categories for transgender women AND men. “Sport achieves its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) goals…
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