Caster Semenya and her fight to compete like any other woman
South African Olympian Caster Semenya has had a tougher time in the courts than in any race she’s run.
By Dawn Ennis | August 17, 2019South African Olympian Caster Semenya has had a tougher time in the courts than in any race she’s run.
By Dawn Ennis | August 17, 2019“Whoever’s going to stop me from running,” Semenya told a women’s conference in Johannesburg, “he’s going to have to drag me out of the track.”
By Dawn Ennis | August 15, 2019Kaitlyn Long left the University of Minnesota as a champion on the field and an advocate off it.
By Jim Buzinski | August 14, 2019A discussion of transgender high school athletes through a human, and humane, lens.
By Karleigh Webb | August 13, 2019The U.S. Department of Education agrees to investigate a Title IX complaint that could lead to a trans athlete ban in Connecticut.
By Ken Schultz | August 8, 2019Switzerland’s Supreme Court reinstated the IAAF’s discriminatory hormone policy, blocking Caster Semenya from competing.
By Dawn Ennis | July 30, 2019These LGBTQ sports films examine queerness and athletics issue through historic and fictional lenses.
By Daniel Villarreal | July 19, 2019While detractors focus on medals and ribbons, trans athletes participate in sports because it affirms them as people.
By Cyd Zeigler | July 8, 2019South African Olympian Caster Semenya is a shining example of what the Stonewall pioneers fought for: equality.
By Dawn Ennis | June 22, 2019Court documents reveal the IAAF referred to the two-time Olympic champion as one of a number of “biologically male athletes with female gender identities.”
By Dawn Ennis | June 19, 2019Selina Soule and two other Connecticut girls say the state policy allowing trans girls to compete violated their civil rights and possibly deprived them of scholarships.
By Dawn Ennis | June 18, 2019The more people who come out, ‘the sooner that gay children will feel comfortable to just be themselves,’ Steven Jacobs, now an NYU student, says.
By Steven Jacobs | June 18, 2019Trans athlete Chris Mosier joins Sue Bird, Brittney Griner and others in Nike’s new Pride-themed ‘Be True’ video.
By Dawn Ennis | June 17, 2019Susie Poore, a runner at Lehigh University, has found freedom after coming out
By Jim Buzinski | June 10, 2019Dutee Chand’s announcement of her 5-year relationship with another woman makes her India’s first out athlete
By Dawn Ennis | May 20, 2019“No man can stop me from running,” says South African Olympian Caster Semenya after winning another 800m and vowing to appeal to compete naturally
By Dawn Ennis | May 7, 2019The fear of some athletes’ success in women’s sports continues to plague intersex and trans athletes.
By Cyd Zeigler | May 1, 2019An international arbitration court ruled testosterone suppression was “discrimination” against South African Olympic champion Caster Semenya, but that it was “necessary”
By Dawn Ennis | May 1, 2019South African double 800m Olympic champion Caster Semenya will learn the decision of the Court for Arbitration for Sport Wednesday morning
By Dawn Ennis | April 30, 2019Mack Beggs, Andraya Yearwood, and Sarah Rose Huckman are featured in “Changing the Game,” a new documentary film debuting at the Tribeca Film Festival
By Dawn Ennis | April 26, 2019