When Riley Gaines began her journey as a competitive swimmer, little did she show that her toughest battles would take place outside of the swimming pool. After trans swimmer Lia Thomas stole the title from Gaines in the 2022 NCAA championships, Gaines has been on a mission to protect the integrity of women’s sports. That endeavor has since evolved into filing a lawsuit, alongside fifteen other female athletes, against the NCAA for allowing biological men to compete in women’s sports despite...
Megan Rapinoe has been branded 'shameful' by Piers Morgan for her involvement in a letter to NCAA urging them not to ban trans athletes competing in women's sports.
Over 400 former and current collegiate, professional and Olympic athletes urged the NCAA to not ban transgender athletes from women’s college sports, according to a letter sent out on Tuesday. “We implore you, the NCAA’s highest governing body and members of an organization focused on supporting the wellbeing of not just athletes but sport itself,
Athletes are voicing dissatisfaction with the U.S. Olympic track and field uniforms for the upcoming Paris Games, particularly a leotard component that they say provides insufficient coverage.
Transgender athlete wins shot put by more than three feet as middle school girls protest and refuse to compete - just days after she won the court battle to overturn West Virginia's transgender laws - A transgender athlete from West Virginia won her shot put competition in her first sporting event after an appeals court ruling allowed her to compete - because other participants refused to compete against her.Becky Pepper-Jackson, 13, competed in the Harris County Middle School track and field...
The odds of retiring due to injury are far less, for one thing
An IOC-funded study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine earlier this month suggests transgender athletes could be at a physical disadvantage.
The Biden administration is trying to have it both ways by not directly mentioning the word transgender but protecting them anyway.
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the transgender sports ban cannot be applied to 13-year-old Becky Pepper Jackson, but remains in place at the state level.
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has voted to block West Virginia’s “Save Women’s Sports Act,” saying that it violates the rights of transgender students.
A transgender veteran’s advocacy group has filed a second lawsuit against the Department of Veterans Affairs. The legal action is aimed at compelling the agency to include “gender-affirming” surgery for former service members.
A former high school athletic trainer accused of sexually assaulting a dozen teenage girls was sentenced Monday to 36 years in prison after pleading no contest to felony charges, officials said. Richard Alexander Turner, 65, entered the plea during a preliminary hearing to determine whether there was enough evidence for the case to go to trial, court records show. He pleaded no contest to 13 counts of sexual assault involving 12 girls, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney's...