In the end, however, those on the brief Zoom call say they ended up disappointed with Moulton’s response. “I was telling him people were fearful for their children’s lives,” said Nina Selvaggio, executive director of Greater Boston PFLAG. “Nothing made an impact. There was no empathy, no love, no pausing.” Moulton declined to be interviewed…
Women’s sports should be biological females only with an ‘open’ category for trans athletes, a female Olympic athlete has said. Former MP and Olympian plus President of World Athletics Sebastian Coe has been canvassing for the role of President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) with one campaign point being “the protection of the female…
TNT Sports presenter Laura Woods hit out at a Labour peer on social media on Wednesday as she waded into a debate on transgender athletes in sport. During a debate in the House of Lords on Tuesday, Labour spokeswoman Fiona Twycross was asked about fairness, safety and equality for women in sport after boxers Imane Khelif…
Young women and girls should never be placed in a position where their safety is at risk. They should never be pushed out of activities and spaces intentionally designed for them. Yet we are increasingly seeing biological men competing in women’s sports, creating not only unfair challenges but posing a danger to biologically female athletes’…
San Jose State’s women’s volleyball coach admits it has been ‘very tough’ to manage the team of late amid controversy surrounding transgender player Blaire Fleming. Multiple opponents have refused to play against San Jose State in recent months after Fleming, who is in their third season on the team’s roster, was revealed to be a…
The college volleyball season was further plunged into the debate over transgender athletes this week as video emerged of San Jose State University’s Blaire Fleming sending a ferocious spike off an opponent’s face. Fleming, a redshirt senior who is reportedly transgender, has been cited as the reason four schools have forfeited matches against San Jose…
Aussie television presenter and football expert Lucy Zelic has accused an English football club of excluding women after a match was postponed because it fielded a transgender player. Sutton United’s away game at Ebbsfleet in the London and South East Regional Women’s League was postponed on Sunday amid controversy centred on a transgender goalkeeper. The game,…
Valentina Petrillo, the first openly transgender athlete to compete at the 2024 Paris Paralympics, qualified for the women’s 400m semi-finals on Monday’s Round 1 heats. The Italian track athlete finished a couple of seconds behind Alejandra Paola Pérez López in heat 4, crossing the line on 58.35 seconds with the Venezuelan setting a season’s best…
