Gender in sports

FILe - Caitlin Carroll, right, demonstrates skills, Tuesday, March 19, 2023, at United Skates of America in Seaford, N.Y. (AP Photo/Jeenah Moon, File)

Judge strikes down NY county’s ban on female transgender athletes after roller derby league sues

A New York judge has struck down a Long Island county’s order banning female transgender athletes after a local women’s roller derby league challenged it.

FILE - A pedestrian passes by the US 4th Circuit Court of Appeals Courthouse on Main Street in Richmond, Va., Wednesday, June 16, 2021. West Virginia's transgender sports ban violates the rights of a teen athlete under Title IX, the federal civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools, an appeals court ruled Tuesday, April 16, 2024. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that the law cannot be applied to a 13-year-old who has been taking puberty-blocking medication and publicly identified as a girl since she was in the third grade. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

West Virginia says it will appeal ruling that allowed transgender teen athlete to compete

FILE - A protester outside the Kansas Statehouse holds a sign after a rally for transgender rights on the Transgender Day of Visibility, March 31, 2023, in Topeka, Kan. A new rule from President Joe Biden's administration assuring transgender students be allowed to use the school bathrooms that align with their gender identity could conflict with laws in Republican-controlled states that seek to make sure they can't. (AP Photo/John Hanna, File)

New federal rule bars transgender school bathroom bans, but it likely isn’t the final word

FILE - Erin Friday, a leader with Our Duty, a group supporting policies requiring school staff to notify parents if their child identifies as transgender, speaks at a rally outside of the state Capitol in Sacramento Monday, Aug. 28, 2023. A group backing a proposed ballot measure in California that would require school staff to notify parents if their child asks to change gender identification at schools is battling the attorney general in court Friday, arguing he released misleading information about the proposal to the public. (AP Photo/Sophie Austin, File)

Judge tentatively sides with California AG in fight over ballot measure on students’ gender ID

FILE - Demonstrators advocating for transgender rights and healthcare stand outside of the Ohio Statehouse on Jan. 24, 2024, in Columbus, Ohio. The rights of LGBTQ+ students will be protected by federal law and victims of campus sexual assault will gain new safeguards under rules finalized Friday, April19, 2024, by the Biden administration. Notably absent from Biden’s policy, however, is any mention of transgender athletes. (AP Photo/Patrick Orsagos, File)

Biden’s new Title IX rules protect LGBTQ+ students, but avoid addressing transgender athletes

After a county restricted transgender women in sports, a roller derby league said, ‘No way’

A women’s roller derby team is joining the fight over the rights of transgender athletes. The Long Island Roller Rebels are suing a New York county after it banned women’s and girls’ teams with transgender female athletes from using county-run facilities. (AP Video: Joseph B. Frederick)

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New Hampshire Senate passes bill to restrict transgender athletes in grades 5-12

A New Hampshire bill that would ban transgender athletes in grades 5-12 from teams that align with their gender identity is headed to the governor’s desk.

FILE - People gather in front of the Idaho Statehouse in opposition to anti-transgender legislation moving through an Idaho Republican congress, Friday, Feb. 24, 2023, in Boise, Idaho. The U.S. Supreme Court's decision on Monday, April 15, 2024, allows the state to put in place a 2023 law that subjects physicians to up to 10 years in prison if they provide hormones, puberty blockers or other gender-affirming care to people under age 18. A federal judge in Idaho had previously blocked the law in its entirety. (Darin Oswald/Idaho Statesman via AP, File)

Things to know as courts and legislatures act on transgender kids’ rights

Several U.S. courts have ruled this week on state laws restricting the rights of transgender young people.

FILE - A pedestrian passes by the US 4th Circuit Court of Appeals Courthouse on Main Street in Richmond, Va., Wednesday, June 16, 2021. West Virginia's transgender sports ban violates the rights of a teen athlete under Title IX, the federal civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools, an appeals court ruled Tuesday, April 16, 2024. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that the law cannot be applied to a 13-year-old who has been taking puberty-blocking medication and publicly identified as a girl since she was in the third grade. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

West Virginia transgender sports ban discriminates against teen athlete, appeals court says

A federal appeals court has ruled that West Virginia’s transgender sports ban violates the rights of a teen athlete. The 2-1 ruling Tuesday from the 4th U.S.

FILE - New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks during a news briefing, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024, in New York. A county outside New York City has lost its bid to block the state from taking legal action against its ban on women’s and girls teams that include female transgender players, James said Friday, April 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

New York county loses bid to prevent state legal challenge of its ban on female transgender athletes

A federal judge has tossed out a lawsuit brought by a county outside New York City that has banned transgender players from women’s and girls’ teams.

World netball’s governing body bans female transgender athletes from women’s international events

Female transgender athletes will not be allowed to compete in international women’s netball. World Netball says that after a lengthy consultation process it has determined that the sport at international level is a “gender affected activity” and has made the decision to ensure what it called “the sa

FILE - The Louisiana Capitol stands, April 4, 2023, in Baton Rouge, La. A bill that that would effectively bar transgender people in Louisiana from using restrooms, locker rooms and sleeping quarters that correspond with their gender identity, in public schools, jails and domestic violence shelters, advanced out of a state legislative committee Monday, April 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Stephen Smith, File)

Louisiana’s transgender ‘bathroom bill’ clears first hurdle

Louisiana lawmakers have advanced a bill that would effectively bar transgender people from using restrooms, locker rooms and sleeping quarters — in public schools, jails and domestic violence shelters — that correspond with their gender identity.

Protesters hold signs outside the doors of the legislative chamber in the Nebraska State Capitol in response to a bill that would have restricted students to bathrooms, locker rooms and sports teams that correspond with the gender they were assigned at birth, on Friday, April 5, 2024, in Lincoln, Neb. The bill failed to advance Friday. (AP Photo/Margery Beck)

A Nebraska bill to ban transgender students from the bathrooms and sports of their choice fails

A Nebraska bill that would bar transgender students from bathrooms, locker rooms and sports teams that correspond with their gender identity has failed.

FILE - Nebraska state Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh speaks to reporters, Thursday, March 18, 2024, in Lincoln, Neb. A bill to limit transgender students’ access to bathrooms and sports teams has been advanced out of committee with just days to go until the end of the session. Cavanaugh says she will filibuster bills not yet passed if Omaha Sen. Kathleen Kauth's bathroom and sports bill advances. Speaker of the Legislature Sen. John Arch announced late Thursday, April 4, 2024, that the bill would be debated the next day for no more than four hours. (AP Photo/Margery Beck, File)

Nebraska lawmakers to debate a bill on transgender students’ access to bathrooms and sports teams

A Nebraska bill to limit transgender students’ access to bathrooms and sports teams has advanced out of committee with just days to go until the end of the session.

FILE - New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks during a press briefing, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024, in New York. New York state officials may continue to take legal action against a county outside New York City that has banned transgender players from women’s and girls teams, a judge ruled Thursday, April 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

New York can take legal action against county’s ban on female transgender athletes, judge says

State officials are being allowed to continue legal action against a county outside New York City that has banned transgender players from women’s and girls teams. U.S.

FILE - Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers speaks Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, in Superior, Wis. Evers vetoed a bill Tuesday, April 2, 2024, passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature that would have banned high school transgender athletes from competing on teams that align with their gender identity. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Wisconsin governor vetoes transgender high school athletics ban

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers vetoed a bill passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature that would have banned high school transgender athletes from competing on teams that align with their gender identity.

Minnesota Legislature will return from Easter break with plenty of bills still in the pipeline

The Minnesota Legislature will return from its Easter break with plenty of bills in the pipeline. Bills awaiting legislative attention on Tuesday include several high-profile pieces of legislation, ranging from cannabis and sports betting, to rights for trans people, to maintaining the state’s roads

FILE - A person holds up a sign reading, "Trans People Belong in Alabama," during a rally outside the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Ala., on International Transgender Day of Visibility, March 31, 2023. Sunday, March 31, 2024 is International Transgender Day of Visibility, a day full of events around the world to bring attention to a population that's often ignored or disparaged or victimized. (AP Photo/Kim Chandler, File)

What to know about Day of Visibility, designed to show the world ‘trans joy’

International Transgender Day of Visibility aims to show “trans joy.” Buildings will be lit pink, white and light blue to mark the event on Sunday, which features rallies and panels.

Members of the Long Island Roller Rebels, practice, Tuesday, Mar. 19, 2023, at United Skates of America in Seaford, N.Y. (AP Photo/Jeenah Moon)

After a county restricted transgender women in sports, a roller derby league said, ‘No way’

A women’s roller derby league in suburban New York has thrust itself into the national discussion over the rights of transgender athletes.

CORRECTS PHOTOGRAPHER NAME TO NATRICE MILLER INSTEAD OF ARVIN TEMKAR - Georgia state Sen. Clint Dixon, R-Gwinnett, speaks in favor of a substitute of House Bill 1104, a measure that originally dealt with suicide prevention, but was radically overhauled in Senate committee by adding a number of other bills that had earlier failed to pass the Senate, Tuesday, March 26, 2024, in Atlanta. (Natrice Miller/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Georgia senators again push conservative aims for schools

Georgia’s Republican state senators are making another attempt to impose a conservative stamp on the state’s public schools.

Lawsuit says Ohio’s gender-affirming care ban violates the state constitution

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Two families of transgender minors filed a constitutional challenge on Tuesday to an Ohio law that severely limits gender-affirming health care for youth under 18.

Discrimination lawsuit brought by transgender athlete sent back to Minnesota trial court

The Minnesota Court of Appeals has sent a transgender athlete’s lawsuit back to a trial court to determine whether she was illegally denied entry into women’s competitions because of her gender identity.

Caitlyn Jenner speaks at a press conference, Monday, March 18, 2024, in Mineola, N.Y. The former Olympic gold medalist threw her support behind a local New York official’s order banning female sports teams with transgender athletes from using county-owned facilities. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)

Former Olympian Caitlyn Jenner backs New York county’s ban on transgender female athletes

Olympic gold medalist Caitlyn Jenner has thrown her support behind a local New York official’s order banning female sports teams with transgender athletes from using county-owned facilities.

FILE - The Wisconsin Capitol is seen, Oct. 24, 2023, in Madison, Wis. The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Legislature is poised to finish its two-year session Tuesday, March 12, 2024, by passing a ban on high school transgender athletes competing on girls teams, but a bipartisan effort to allow for early processing of absentee ballots appears to be dead. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer, File)

Wisconsin governor promises to veto transgender athlete ban passed by Republican Legislature

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has renewed his promise to veto a bill passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature that would ban high school transgender athletes competing on girls teams, saying he will be “damn proud to do it.”

FILE - Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, at podium, speaks during a news conference Wednesday, March 6, 2024, in Mineola, N.Y. In a lawsuit filed Monday, March 11, the Long Island Roller Rebels, a women’s roller derby league, asked New York’s highest court to declare that a Nassau County order banning female sports teams with transgender athletes from using county facilities is discriminatory and violates state law. (AP Photo/Philip Marcelo, File)

Women’s roller derby league sues suburban New York county over ban on transgender female athletes

A women’s roller derby league has asked a New York court to invalidate a Republican official’s order banning female sports teams with transgender athletes from using county facilities, saying it is discriminatory and violates state law.

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, at podium, speaks during a news conference in Mineola, N.Y., Wednesday, March 6, 2024. The Republican official in New York City's suburbs, who prohibited transgender athletes from participating in girls and women's sports competitions, has asked a federal court to affirm that he has the power to implement the ban. (AP Photo/Philip Marcelo)

County leader sues New York over an order to rescind his ban on transgender female athletes

A Republican official in New York City’s suburbs who prohibited girls and women’s sports teams with transgender athletes from using county facilities has asked a federal court to affirm the ban.

New York attorney general says a county must rescind its ban on female transgender athletes

New York Attorney General Letitia James is demanding that a county on Long Island rescind its ban on transgender athletes competing in female sports.

Chase Glenn, executive director of Alliance for Full Acceptance, speaks at a rally against a South Carolina bill banning gender-affirming care for minors, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024, in Columbia, S.C. LGBTQ+ advocates like Glenn say that Republican presidential candidates' rhetoric around transgender-related issues is jeopardizing the safety of an already vulnerable community. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)

GOP candidates elevate anti-transgender messaging as a rallying call to Christian conservatives

Donald Trump has mocked transgender people during his campaign, using language about gender identity that LGBTQ+ advocates say is wrong and harmful.

FILE - NCAA headquarters is shown in Indianapolis, April 25, 2018. A member of the NCAA’s Committee on Infractions has resigned over NCAA policies regarding participation of transgender athletes. William Bock is also a former general counsel of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. He says NCAA policies permitting transgender athletes to compete against women are unfair. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)

NCAA Committee on Infractions member resigns over association’s transgender athlete policy

A member of the NCAA’s Committee on Infractions has resigned over NCAA policies regarding participation of transgender athletes.

FILE - Protesters of Kentucky Senate Bill SB150, known as the Transgender Health Bill, cheer on speakers during a rally on the lawn of the Kentucky Capitol in Frankfort, Ky., March 29, 2023. Tennessee and Kentucky can continue to ban gender-affirming care for young transgender people while legal challenges against those state laws proceed, a group of federal appeals judges ruled Thursday, Sept. 29. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, File)

Faced with wave of hostile bills, transgender rights leaders are playing “a defense game”

For decades, the plotline for LGBTQ+ activism in the U.S. was one of advances — often slow but moving forward.

FILE - Utah Gov. Spencer Cox speaks at the George E. Wahlen Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Aug. 10, 2023, in Salt Lake City. Utah’s Republican governor and lieutenant governor are urging the State Board of Education to take action against a conservative board member whose social media post questioning the gender of a high school basketball player incited a tirade of threats against the girl. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Utah governor says school board member who questioned a student’s gender ‘embarrassed the state’

Utah’s Republican governor and other state officials are calling out a conservative state school board member for insinuating in an online post that a member of a girl’s high school basketball team was transgender, when in fact she is not.

Civil rights group says North Carolina public schools harming LGBTQ+ students, violating federal law

A civil rights group has filed a complaint with federal departments alleging North Carolina’s public schools are systematically marginalizing LGBTQ+ youth as two new laws are being carried out.

New Hampshire lawmakers consider multiple bills targeting transgender students and athletes

New Hampshire lawmakers are considering multiple bills that would ban transgender athletes from competing in school sports that align with their gender identities.

FILE - Pennsylvania's Lia Thomas waits for results after swimming the women's 200 freestyle final at the NCAA swimming and diving championships, Friday, March 18, 2022, at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas has asked a Swiss sports court to overturn rules imposed by the World Aquatics governing body which stop her competing in elite women’s races. The Court of Arbitration for Sport said Friday, Jan. 26, 2024 it has registered Thomas’ request but no date for a hearing was decided. Confidentiality around a case begun in September was lifted after it was reported in British media. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas asks CAS to overturn race ban rules as discrimination

Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas has asked a Swiss sports court to overturn rules imposed by World Aquatics which stop her competing in elite women’s races.

Protesters advocating for transgender rights and healthcare stand outside of the Ohio Statehouse on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024, in Columbus, Ohio. The Republican-dominated Ohio state Senate voted Wednesday to override GOP Gov. Mike DeWine's veto of a gender-affirming care ban for minors and a ban that restricts transgender athletes' participation in girls and women's sports. (AP Photo/Patrick Orsagos)

Ohio bans gender-affirming care and restricts transgender athletes despite GOP governor’s veto

The Republican-dominated Ohio Senate has voted to override GOP Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto of legislation banning gender-affirming care for minors.

Family sues school district over law that bans transgender volleyball player from girls’ sports

The family of a transgender volleyball player has added a South Florida school district as a defendant in a federal lawsuit that challenges a 2021 state law banning transgender girls from playing on female sports teams.