Introduction Competitive sports have been divided primarily by the concepts of male/female identity. However, these traditional athletic categories do not account for transgender persons who experience incongruence between the gender assigned at birthand their experienced gender identity. The question of when it is fair to permit transgender personsto compete in sport in line with their […]
USA Powerlifting has banned all transgender women from competing as women, even as a trans powerlifter in Minnesota recently won a state championship with another association, setting a state record. The weightlifting governing body explained their reasoning on their website: Men naturally have a larger bone structure, higher bone density, stronger connective tissue and higher […]
ESPN’s commentator and snowflake Max Kellerman, unleashed maximum ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ in response to the World Series champions Houston Astros accepting an invitation to visit the White House and President Trump. Kellerman went on a decidedly Keith Olbermann-esque tirade against the Trump administration – while repeatedly claiming politics were not influencing his opinion on the […]
student athletes will learn to become “influencers and community leaders with the mechanics to develop their advocacy platform.” The NFL recently pledged to spend $89 million dollars on social justice causes over the next seven years in response to the controversy over players protesting the national anthem. more here
Jim Brady, ESPN Public Editor Apr 4, 2017 ESPN has issued new political and election guidelines for its employees that, while allowing for political discussion on the network’s platforms, recommend connecting those comments to sports whenever possible. The new policies also provide separate guidelines for ESPN staffers working on news and those engaging in commentary. […]
By CHRISTOPHER MELEDEC. 15, 2016 The campus of Princeton University in Princeton, N.J., in 2014. Credit Mark Makela for The New York Times Princeton University suspended the season of its men’s swimming and diving team after the discovery of material on its electronic mailing list that was “vulgar and offensive as well as misogynistic and […]