LGBT Sports winners of the week
Each week, Outsports’ managing editor selects the winners, losers and hopefuls from the past 7 days of LGBTQ sports coverage. This holiday weekend, everybody’s a winner.
By Dawn Ennis | November 30, 2019Each week, Outsports’ managing editor selects the winners, losers and hopefuls from the past 7 days of LGBTQ sports coverage. This holiday weekend, everybody’s a winner.
By Dawn Ennis | November 30, 2019Transgender fitness model Carmen Carrera says, ‘We all feel the same burn.’
By Haley Videckis | November 29, 2019British sport adds rainbows to the sports week palette.
By Karleigh Webb | November 26, 2019After joining the Rainbow Laces campaign, Charlie Martin attempts to become the first trans athlete to compete at the famous endurance race.
By Ken Schultz | November 22, 2019A new poll appears to reveal a majority of the public does not approve of trans athlete inclusion, but a look at its questions reveals repeated use of transphobic code words.
By Ken Schultz | November 20, 2019Around the world, trans people and their allies will honor the hundreds of lives lost to violence and hatred in the past year.
By Dawn Ennis | November 20, 2019The Comedy Central animated comedy is no stranger to controversy, offensive content or punching down. So should we ignore it?
By Dawn Ennis | November 15, 2019It’s important to have a conversation about how to include trans women in sports, not whether to include them.
By Cyd Zeigler | November 11, 2019The Union Cycliste Internationale announced it may reset maximum testosterone levels for trans athletes competing in women’s sports.
By Dawn Ennis | November 8, 2019Tammy Beaumont told the woman who calls herself “The Biggest Bitch in Britain:” “Don’t speak for me or my ovaries.”
By Dawn Ennis | November 6, 2019Each week, Outsports’ managing editor selects the heroes and goats from the past 7 days of LGBTQ sports coverage. This week, we’re all about the winners.
By Dawn Ennis | November 2, 2019The Minnesota trans athlete who filed a discrimination claim against USA Powerlifting talks exclusively with Outsports now that her case is in mediation.
By Dawn Ennis | November 2, 2019Since January 2019, USAPL has excluded trans women lifters from competing with other women and any trans man who uses testosterone.
By Dawn Ennis | October 31, 2019Former Olympian Caitlyn Jenner came out as transgender in 2015, and instantly became the most famous trans person in the world.
By Dawn Ennis | October 31, 2019We take an in-depth look at the discrimination claims made by a transgender powerlifter against the leading organization for that sport, and hear from the man who leads USAPL.
By Daniel Villarreal | October 31, 2019USA Powerlifting and lawyers representing a lifter who filed a discrimination complaint because of USAPL’s trans-exclusionary policy will attempt a settlement.
By Daniel Villarreal | October 30, 2019In May 2019, CeCé Telfer became the first publicly out trans woman to win an NCAA track & field title. Her next goal: Tokyo 2020.
By Dawn Ennis | October 25, 2019Harvard swimmer Schuyler Bailar became the first NCAA Division I out transgender swimmer to compete in 2015.
By Dawn Ennis | October 19, 2019Trans women athletes will no longer be recognized as female by the IAAF and must keep testosterone levels under 5 nmol/L for 12 months prior to competing.
By Brian C. Bell | October 15, 2019It was 11 years ago this month that transgender sportswriter Christine Daniels detransitioned. A year and a month later, she died by suicide.
By Dawn Ennis | October 15, 2019