In the athletic arena, proponents and opponents of transgender women in women’s sports disagree not only on human biology and who gets protected under federal anti-discrimination law, but on …
San Jose State’s Brooke Slusser, left, her team’s assistant head coach, 2 former SJSU women’s volleyball players, and 8 other players from the 4 schools that forfeited matches to the team, filed a lawsuit to remove a transgender player from the squad.
“It’s just a lot of fear mongering,” said Shiwali Patel, senior director of safe and inclusive schools at the National Women’s Law Center, based in Washington, D.C., which seeks to combat gender inequality via legal action and lobbying — arguing there’s no evidence of transgender women dominating in girls’ and women’s sports.
Lately, the controversy has erupted locally at the high school level where the California Interscholastic Federation allows transgender athletes to play high school sports in accordance with their gender identity. Aa girls’ volleyball match against a San Francisco private school, alleging a male athlete was on the Bay Area team.
In a court filing last week, the National Women’s Law Center, seeking to counter the claim that transgender women have a physical advantage, noted that in the 2022 championships, Thomas placed last in the women’s 100-yard freestyle final. Lawyers for Kress, in a court filing Tuesday, argued that discrimination on the basis of transgender status is illegal under the federal anti-discrimination law Title IX and the U.S. Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause.
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