Earlier this month, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to ban transgender women from competing in women’s sports. “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” will go into “immediate action, including enforcement actions, against schools and athletic associations,” according to the White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. This all started […]
Tag: Transgender Athletes
Transgender athlete’s skill is reduced to debate fodder
On March 17, 2022, Lia Thomas, a senior at Penn State University, made history by becoming the first openly transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division I championship after winning the women’s 500-yard freestyle. The aftermath of Thomas’s groundbreaking victory, however, lacked focus on Thomas herself but rather shifted into […]
Marathons shouldn’t discriminate against trans-women
Photo courtesy of @EntirelyAmelia, Twitter Recently, the magazine Canadian Running published a piece highlighting the achievements of three transgender women who managed to qualify for the women’s division of this year’s Boston Marathon, Stevie Romer of Woodstock, Illinois, Amelia Gapin of Jersey City, New Jersey and Grace Fisher of Hancock, Maryland. […]