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How Different Women’s Sports Are Trying To Balance Fairness and Trans Inclusivity

How Different Women’s Sports Are Trying To Balance Fairness and Trans Inclusivity

Update: 2025-06-03
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After a transgender high school athlete won two events at a California track and field competition, President Donald Trump has threatened to defund the state. On today's episode: Katie Barnes, author of Fair Play: How Sports Shape the Gender Debates (St. Martin's Press, 2023), discusses the rules various leagues have set in place to ensure equity and inclusion and fact-checks some of the broader ideas held by the public about fairness and gender in sport.

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How Different Women’s Sports Are Trying To Balance Fairness and Trans Inclusivity

How Different Women’s Sports Are Trying To Balance Fairness and Trans Inclusivity

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