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Szabados Signs with Beauts, NWHL

(Photo: Buffalo Beauts / Twitter)

After the 2018 Winter Olympics, Shannon Szabados wasn't quite sure what her next move would be. At 31, should she hang up her skates? Give it another go in professional men's hockey? Or perhaps venture into professional women's hockey, which had been growing over the past

Melissa Burgess
gender, gender policy, international olympic committee, international association of athletics federations, IAAF, caster semenya, intersex policy, testosterone, trans policy, features, dutee chand

New IAAF Testosterone Regulations are Bigoted and Targeted

Last week the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) released new regulations for women's events titled Female Classification (Athletes with Differences of Sex Development). These regulations are currently valid and the new testosterone limits will be enforced beginning on November 1, 2018. The IAAF claims these new regulations are designed

Andrew
gender policy, trans policy, features, gender, intersex policy, transphobia, international olympic committee, recreational sports, youth sports, stockholm consensus

The Opposite of Fair Play: Part III

This is the third piece in a three-part series about gender policies in sports. The first piece addressed the history of gender regulations and testing at the Olympics in the 20th century, highlighting that such policies led to discrimination against gender diverse competitors. The second piece focused on 21st century

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