Tag: transgender athletes

ACLU Will Ask Supreme Court to Block State Law Banning Men From Women’s Sports

The Supreme Court has given counsel for a transgender middle school student until March 20 to respond to West Virginia’s emergency application to lift a federal appeals court order blocking the state’s Save Women’s Sports Act from taking effect. The legal action comes as West Virginia and other states have been taking action to make…


Supreme Court Is Asked to Take First Transgender Sports Case

The state of West Virginia and a former collegiate soccer player are asking the Supreme Court to back a state law that bans male student-athletes who present as female from playing on girls’ school sports teams. The legal action comes as West Virginia and other states are taking action to make sure women and girls…


UK Equality Watchdog Makes Statement After Adult Transgender Cricketer Played Against Teen Girls

The UK’s equality watchdog issued a statement on Tuesday saying it’s “likely to be lawful” for sporting bodies to ban transgender athletes in order to ensure fairness and the safety of competitors. The intervention comes after The Telegraph reported that a middle-aged person who had transitioned from a man to a woman—and who was described by a…


Barbara Kay: Canadian Sports Organization Should Quit Its Activism for Transgender Athletes in Women’s Sport

Commentary As a response to our national embarrassment around the doping scandals of the 1980s, the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) was established to ensure that cheating in sport would never recur. For two decades, CCES concentrated on its primary function: keeping banned substances out of sport. Then its leadership went woke, and…


For Gender Identity Activists, Biological Reality Is Now Just an ‘Idea’ That Needs Defeating

Commentary For gender-identity activists, allowing males to compete on female sports teams is not fundamentally about “inclusivity”; it’s about redefining reality. Now, however, even they are starting to admit this. Laws that protect fairness in women’s sports are often ridiculed as “solutions in search of a problem.” Those of us who advocate such legislation are…


22 States Sue Over ‘Gender Identity’ Rule Controlling $29 Billion For Poor Kids’ Meals

Twenty-two states are suing President Joe Biden’s administration for threatening to zap school-meal program funding unless the states comply with new rules surrounding gender identity and sexual orientation in schools. The lawsuit represents the latest volley fired in the ongoing battles between state officials and Biden, who they accuse of usurping their authority through his…


Too Much Emphasis on Rights, Not Enough on Responsibility: Zuby

Rapper, author, fitness coach, and political commentator Zuby says that his faith and life experiences have equipped him to speak out against dangerous and irrational trends, such as the left advocating for personal rights without holding people responsible for their choices. “This is a message that I wish were pushed more,” Zuby said during an interview…


As New Title IX Rules Released, Rally Protests Transgender Athletes Competing in Women’s Sports

WASHINGTON—A group of female athletes from all over the nation protested on June 23 against transgender athletes competing in women’s sports. The rally at Freedom Plaza in Washington also celebrated the 50th anniversary of Title IX, which prohibits any sex-based discrimination in education programs and activities receiving federal funding and enabled college women’s athletic participation…


Canada Voted in Favour of Policy Banning Transgender Swimmers From Competing in Women’s Events

Canada has voted in favour of a policy that bans biological men from competing in women’s swimming events unless they had undergone gender transition before the age of 12. In a policy that went into effect on June 20, the International Swimming Federation (FINA) allows biological male swimmers to compete in women’s events only if…


Four Time Olympic Gold Medalist Backs Sex-Based Distinction in Sports

Australian four-time Olympic gold medallist Cate Campbell has urged elite sporting competitions to protect sex-based categories and to develop a policy that “pays attention to inclusion” but “prioritises fairness.” The swimming champion addressed the world swimming body FINA before it voted on Sunday to restrict transgender athletes from competing in women’s competitions. A majority of…