World Athletics bans trans women from the female track and field category
The new ban happens to begin on International Transgender Day of Visibility, March 31.
By Cyd Zeigler | March 23, 2023The new ban happens to begin on International Transgender Day of Visibility, March 31.
By Cyd Zeigler | March 23, 2023Officials express concerns about how current national human rights law would affect a rules change
By Karleigh Webb | February 3, 2023Possible new rules would merge trans regulations with the ‘Caster Semenya Rule.’
By Karleigh Webb | January 25, 2023The transgender Canadian Paralympian says he is finally free to be himself and free to speak out.
By Karleigh Webb | August 2, 2022Kade McCall has excelled at the hammer throw at Kansas State. Since coming out, he feels completely free.
By Alex Reimer | July 25, 2022Osian Jones was dealing with ‘a lot of internalized homophobia’ and was surprised when there was no negative reaction to coming out.
By Jim Buzinski | April 11, 2022Raven Saunders has been courageously herself while winning an Olympic silver medal and elevating others along the way.
By Cyd Zeigler | December 27, 2021The bold Olympic silver medalist talks about her X on the podium, her died hair and her struggles with mental health.
By Cyd Zeigler | November 30, 2021The Ugandan middle distance runner hopes that World Athletics will take a leaf out of the newly released Olympic inclusion playbook.
By Shelby Weldon | November 19, 2021Wyatt Warnick came out publicly just days after being hired at Sacred Heart, a Catholic school.
By Cyd Zeigler | October 28, 2021‘I think the biggest lesson I learned as a queer athlete was to never be ashamed of who you are and where you come from,’ Devan Kirk writes.
By Devan Kirk | October 26, 2021Semenya and others want answers as World Athletics scrambles to explain a false report that led to Olympic bans.
By Cyd Zeigler | August 19, 2021Ramsey Angela was the anchor leg for the Dutch men’s 4x400-meter team.
By Cyd Zeigler | August 7, 2021Her rainbow-dyed hair in the 1500-meter was the perfect answer to the Olympic ban on speech and demonstrations.
By Cyd Zeigler | August 6, 2021Ramsey Angela is a relay sprinter for Netherlands and is out as a gay athlete at the Tokyo Summer Olympics.
By Cyd Zeigler | August 5, 2021Blocked from her best event by the “Caster Semenya Rule,” 18-year-old Mboma is now Namibia’s first-ever female Olympic medalist.
By Karleigh Webb | August 3, 2021Out Venezuelan champion Yulimar Rojas saved the best for last as she leaped to a gold medal at the Tokyo Summer Olympics.
By Karleigh Webb | August 1, 2021Niyonsaba was first barred from the 800 for natural testosterone. They found a way to remove her from the 5000-meter too.
By Cyd Zeigler | July 31, 2021Raven Saunders poses and throws her way to an Olympic silver medal in Tokyo for Team USA, also a big win for Team LGBTQ.
By Jim Buzinski | July 31, 2021In her latest brilliant Olympic hair and face mask combination, US shot putter Raven Saunders channels her inner Batman arch nemesis.
By Ken Schultz | July 30, 2021