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Malcolm Gladwell Does a 180 on Trans Athletes

Tipping Point author now says he was 'cowed' into offering his support for them, feels 'ashamed'

(Newser) - Three years ago, Malcolm Gladwell made an appearance at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, where he moderated a panel that discussed a "path forward for the inclusion" of transgender athletes in sports. Now, the 62-year-old Tipping Point author is flipping that narrative, revealing on a podcast this week...

World Athletics to Require Women to Take Gene Test

One-time SRY gene test reveals whether Y chromosome is present

(Newser) - Who can compete as a woman in elite athletics? It'll come down to a test for the SRY gene, World Athletics announced on Wednesday. Starting September 1, the governing sports body will require that female competitors clear a one-time SRY gene test—conducted via cheek swab or blood...

US Olympics, Paralympics Ban Trans Women From Women's Sports

Move follows NCAA's similar step in line with Trump order

(Newser) - The US Olympic and Paralympic Committee has effectively barred transgender women from competing in women's sports, telling the federations overseeing swimming, athletics and other sports it has an "obligation to comply" with an executive order issued by President Trump, the AP reports. The new policy, announced Monday with...

Trans Athlete Takes Home Gold in California

Rule change allows AB Hernandez to compete in high school track and field finals

(Newser) - A transgender athlete bested the competition over the weekend at the California high school track and field championship to take home gold in the girls high jump and the triple jump at a meet that has stirred controversy and drawn national attention. AB Hernandez competed under a new rule change...

SCOTUS Sides With Maine Lawmaker After Post About Trans Kid

High court restores state legislator's voting power

(Newser) - Republican Maine state lawmaker Laurel Libby will have her voting power back in the state's next legislative session, thanks to the highest court in the land. Libby had been censured by the Democrat-controlled Maine House after social media comments she made earlier this year regarding the Maine high school...

DOJ Sues Maine Over Trans Athletes in Girls Sports

Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the legal action Wednesday

(Newser) - President Trump's administration announced a lawsuit Wednesday against Maine's education department for not complying with the government's push to ban transgender athletes in girls sports, escalating a dispute over whether the state is abiding by a federal law that bars discrimination in education based on sex. The...

Maine Governor Responds to Trump's Apology Demand

Janet Mills pushes back again on president's attack against transgender athletes

(Newser) - Last month, President Trump and Maine Gov. Janet Mills got into a verbal argument during a National Governors Association meeting at the White House, after Trump attacked Mills for allowing transgender athletes to play on girls' and women's teams in her state and Mills pushed back, telling him, "...

Governor, Trump Exchange Threats at White House

Trump and Janet Mills of Maine trade threats over executive order on transgender athletes

(Newser) - A White House session of the National Governors Association disintegrated into an exchange of threats between Maine Gov. Janet Mills and President Trump on Friday, with the host insisting, "We are the federal law" and the Democrat promising to see him "in court." The clash began when...

Trump: Trans Athletes Won't Be Allowed at LA Olympics

He signs order to bar transgender athletes from women's sports

(Newser) - President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday intended to prohibit transgender athletes from participating in girls' and women's sports. The order, titled " Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports ," gives federal agencies, including the Justice and Education departments, wide latitude to ensure entities that receive federal...

Trump to Ban Trans Athletes From Women's Sports

President set to sign EO Wednesday barring trans females from competing in women's, girls sports

(Newser) - President Trump will sign an executive order on Wednesday designed to prevent people who were biologically assigned male at birth from participating in women's or girls' sporting events. The order, which Trump is expected to sign at an afternoon ceremony, marks another aggressive shift by the president's second...

House Passes Bill on Trans Women, Girls in Sports

2 Democrats voted with Republicans

(Newser) - A GOP-led bill to ban transgender women and girls from sports programs passed the House on Tuesday with two Democrats siding with Republicans. Democratic Reps. Vicente Gonzalez and Henry Cuellar of Texas voted in favor of the "Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act" and Democratic Rep. Don...

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