Category: sports
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Culture wars take center stage in Tudor Dixon’s education proposals
Republican gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon seized on national culture wars in a pair of press conferences this week, with education policy priorities aimed at transgender children in sports and discussion of sexual orientation and gender in classrooms. Rating: Transneutral, MLive, September 28, 2022 (PDF archive)
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Texas attorney general declares gender-affirming medical care for transgender kids ‘child abuse’
Rating: Transneutral, Texas Newsroom, February 22, 2022 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Texas attorney general declares gender-affirming medical care for transgender kids ‘child abuse’ By Joseph Leahy | The Texas Newsroom Published February 22, 2022 at 1:35 PM CST Ken Paxton’s legal opinion issued Monday defines certain gender-affirming medical treatments for minors…
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Women Are Adult Human Females: Why Trans Women Aren’t Women
Kellie-Jay Keen (AKA Posie Parker) is a women’s rights campaigner and prominent critic of the trans rights movement (which she criticises because of the effect she believes it has on women). She is the founder of “Standing for Women” and appears regularly in the news and media, most recently in a heated interview with James…
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Do trans athletes have an unfair advantage?
Rating: Transneutral, Deutsche Welle, July 24, 2021 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Do trans athletes have an unfair advantage? Stephanie Burnett 07/24/2021July 24, 2021 The eligibility of trans athletes in major sporting events has come under close scrutiny as sports federations and politicians increasingly shape policies. The experts behind the…
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Tulsi Gabbard Introduces Bill That Would Ban Trans Women and Girls from Female Sports
Democratic Hawaii Rep. and former 2020 Presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard introduced a bill into the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday that would dictate Title IX protections for female athletes be based on biological sex—a term often used to refer to gender assigned to a person at birth—thats advocate have decried as inherently transphobic. Rating: Transneutral, Time,…
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Trans competition is discriminatory, say teens backed by anti-abortion lawyers
Three high-school students in Connecticut have filed a federal discrimination complaint challenging the state’s policy of letting trans students compete on sports teams according to their gender identity. Rating: Transsupportive, Pink News, June 20, 2019 (PDF archive)
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Title IX Discrimination Complaint on Behalf of Minor Children Selina Soule, [Second Complainant], and Alanna Smith
We submit this Complaint on behalf of minor Selina Soule, on behalf of minor [Second Complainant], and on behalf of minor Alanna Smith. Because the Complainants are minors, and because they fear retaliation, we respectfully request that the OCR treat their identities as confidential to the extent consistent with conducting a thorough investigation of the…
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Anti-LGBTQ group Heritage Foundation has hosted four anti-trans panels so far in 2019
Panelists included “trans-exclusionary radical feminists” and anti-trans medical professionals who pushed flawed research and advocated for conversion therapy. Rating: Transsupportive, Media Matters, April 18, 2019 (PDF archive) (HTML archive)