2D. Women's Sports
Boys vs. Women: Male High School Athletes vs Female Olympians
"If boys win against the fastest women, is it fair for males to compete in female-only athletic events?"
https://boysvswomen.com/#/
Mariah Burton Nelson. "Stronger Women."
"A former Stanford and pro basketball player, Mariah Burton Nelson is an award-winning author, speaker, and thought leader..."
https://www.mariahburtonnelson.com/
https://strongerwomen.substack.com/
Save Women’s Sports
“…a coalition that fights to preserve sex-based eligibility standards for participation in female sports”
https://savewomenssports.com
https://twitter.com/SaveWomensSports
https://twitter.com/BethStelzer
She Won
“… dedicated to archiving the achievements of females who were displaced by males in women's sporting events and other types of competitions expressly for women. One day soon we hope their accomplishments will be formally recognized.”
SheWon.org
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There’s a reason that women’s sports were made by and for natural-born women.
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner
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Katherine M. Acosta. "Sex, sports and trans-identified males in the female category: Why "fairness" is not overrated and where liberals and progressives got it wrong." [2025]
https://archive.ph/cxBSC
Tim Black. “Trans ideology will destroy women’s sports: Allowing biological males to compete against women is a license to cheat.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/oS8E7
Ben Brasch and María Luisa Paúl. "Newsom says allowing trans athletes in women’s sports is ‘deeply unfair': California’s Democratic governor broke with most in his own party on the issue.' [2025]
https://archive.ph/uxef4
Collin Brinkley. "UPenn to ban transgender athletes, feds say, ending civil rights case focused on swimmer Lia Thomas: The University of Pennsylvania has agreed to ban transgender women from its women’s sports teams to resolve a federal civil rights case that found the school violated the rights of female athletes." [2025]
https://archive.ph/9VHLj
Civic Impulse, LLC. “S. 613: Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2023.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/uKTLQ
Naomi Cunningham and Fiona McAnena. "Women’s sport & the law: What is fair & what is legal when it comes to trans inclusion in elite women’s sports?” [UK, 2023]
https://www.outertemple.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/NLJ_2023_Vol_Iss…
Sharron Davies. “I was an Olympic Swimmer, I want trans women banned from all female sports.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/UD0Z6
______."Men don’t belong in women’s sport.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/sxxsU
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/men-dont-belong-in-womens-sport/
Sarah Ditum. “Who loses when trans women win? The trans debate is harming intersex people like Caster Semenya.” [2021]
https://archive.ph/Ed27E#selection-441.0-445.63
Tyler Durden. "Female athlete retires after competing against biological men, says girls 'No longer have a fair chance’.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/wip/wAfOw
Reid J. Epstein and Lauren Rosenhall. "Newsom splits with Democrats on transgender athletes: ‘It’s deeply unfair:' The remarks by Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, a potential White House hopeful, were an extraordinary break from fellow Democrats and signaled a newly defensive position on the issue." [2025]
https://archive.ph/YKQzY
Feminist Wiki. “Trans women in women’s sports.” [2021]
https://feministwiki.org/wiki/Transwomen_in_women%27s_sports
Gina Florio. "Lia Thomas suspected to have autogynephilia, an abnormal sexual desire that results in men being aroused by themselves pretending to be women.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/B4ZuP
ZK Goh, Evelyn Watta, and Ed Knowles. "DSD athletes: What does it mean to be DSD and how gender and sex are the big issues in athletics: Caster Semenya and Francine Niyonsaba are just two athletes affected by the IAAF's new DSD rules. Here's a guide on what DSD is and why the IAAF has introduced the regulations.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/wip/pE8Bq
Joanna Harper, Emma O’Donnell, Behzad Sorouri Khorashad, Hilary McDermott, Gemma L Witcomb. "How does hormone transition in transgender women change body composition, muscle strength and haemoglobin? Systematic review with a focus on the implications for sport participation.” [2021]
https://tinyurl.com/2nc64n9v
Jean Hatchet. “Women will play on: Don’t ask a woman to take herself out of the game.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/wip/fRKIs
Heather Heying. "Celebrating the Cheater: How to beat women in the 21st century.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/wip/UZsLh
Jeanna Hoch. “Lia Thomas wants respect—Well, so do women.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/t2ERL
Virginia Kruta. “‘Did this just say PEACEFUL?’: Riley Gaines unloads on San Francisco State’s response to attack.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/wip/uoWwr
Lydia Mother's Roar. "Just a boy: Save girls sports! Stop telling boys they are girls." [2026]
https://archive.ph/iZLGT
Fiona McAnena. “The flawed science of trans inclusion in women’s sport: Advocates are embracing flawed studies to justify unfair inclusion.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/YXD5u
Christina Maxouris. “3 Connecticut high school girls are suing over a policy that allows trans athletes to compete in girls' sports.” [2020]
https://archive.ph/zZdaC
Robinson Meyer. “We thought female athletes were catching up to men, but they’re not: Across dozens of sports, women's world speed records consistently fall 10 percent short of men’s records.” [2012]
https://archive.ph/swUXs
Meghan Murphy. “Trans athletes make a mockery of women’s sports.” [2019]
https://archive.ph/wip/sTkn1
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All space becomes male space unless females maintain a concerted effort to mark a space for themselves.
— Sheila Jeffreys
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Martina Navratilova. “The rules on trans athletes reward cheats and punish the innocent: Letting men compete as women simply if they change their name and take hormones is unfair — no matter how those athletes may throw their weight around.” [2019]
https://archive.ph/ebqGv
Amy Nelson. "Former Lia Thomas teammate challenges White House rhetoric on trans athletes: 'Dangerous for women’: Paula Scanlan said she plans to 'stand against' any attempts to rewrite Title IX.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/wip/Afn7N
Mariah Burton Nelson. "17 Simple things you need to know about the 2 women's sports cases coming up at the Supreme Court: Like Supreme Court for Dummies--except you're not dummies." [2026]
https://archive.ph/z8KiX
_____. "How can we ensure fairness for female athletes while including trans-identified males?" [2024}
https://archive.ph/2Jmll
New York Times/Ipsos. "Topline & Methodology. Q32. Thinking about transgender female athletes — meaning athletes who were male at birth but who currently identify as female -do you think they should or should not be allowed to compete in women's sports?" [2025]
https://archive.ph/jWgkV
Jon Pike. “Why ‘Meaningful Competition’ is not fair competition.” [2023]
The Journal of the Philosophy of Sport is a peer-reviewed journal.
https://archive.ph/8PMsK
Michael Powell. “What Lia Thomas could mean for women’s elite sports: Although the number of top transgender athletes is small, the disagreements are profound, cutting to the core of the debate around gender identity and biological sex.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/LQO3x
Maya T. Prabhu. “Georgia bill would make transgender youth compete as gender identified at birth.” [2019]
https://archive.ph/wip/SBgBu
The Publica Staff. “Australian government instructs news outlet to delete article that offended trans activist.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/wip/krBcE
Valerie Richardson. “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. splits with Democrats by opposing biological males in women’s sports.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/EyJwP#selection-1513.11-1532.0
John Riley. “3 states introduce bills to restrict transgender athletes to competing based on their birth sex: Spate of bills targeting transgender athletes shows social conservatives believe they’ve found a salient wedge issue.” [2019]
https://archive.ph/wip/Wgi1j
ripx4nutmeg. “… just some of the males who have gone on to win women's sports events - including how they performed in the men's category before they started identifying as women.” [2023]
https://twitter.com/ripx4nutmeg/status/1400344909182345216
Julia Diana Robertson. “DOJ sides with 3 Connecticut HS girls about fairness in sports.” [2020]
https://archive.ph/juqtN
Dani Shugart. “Trans athletes: The death of women’s sports: Fairness gone too far.” [2019]
https://archive.ph/sCoCe
Amelia Strickler. “Trans TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney makes total mockery of female athletes like me.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/wip/wwirZ
Beverley Talbott. "States may limit girls' and women's sports to biological females, Supreme Court says: Kavanaugh is the G.O.A.T." [2026]
https://archive.ph/wip/o6Sz2
Jackson Thompson. "Oregon teens who protested trans athlete at medal podium settle free speech lawsuit vs sports league: 'We spoke up because what was happening wasn’t fair,' said Alexa Anderson." [2025]
https://archive.ph/7EpaF
Washington Post Editorial Board. "Trans athletes head to the Supreme Court." [2026]
https://archive.ph/I6IbY
Caitlin Yilek. "Simone Biles owes her legacy to the rules Riley Gaines is defending: The very rules that allowed Biles to become a legend are the ones she now wants to destroy for the next generation of female athletes."
https://archive.ph/qKyOw
______. "Senate Democrats block bill to exclude transgender students in girl's sports." [2025]
https://archive.ph/DOMJ5
Ben Zeisloft. "Massive backfire: Sorority booted Payton McNabb, now she gets the last laugh in a big way." [2025]
https://archive.ph/gTNN8
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While sports are indisputably a positive source of strength and self-development for girls, they can accomplish this only if the environment in which female athletes throw their javelins, kick their soccer balls, and swim their fast and furious laps is an environment that respects girls and takes them seriously as athletes.
― Leslie Heywood
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Fair Play for Women. “The inclusion delusion.” [2023] VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFQLkDHqf84
Posey Parker. “Beth Stelzer: Save women’s sports.” [2020] VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UQT4U7AI8E
Chris Williamson. "The most compelling argument against trans athletes in sports.” [2023] VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BagXby1y3TE
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Significant strides have been made by women throughout the world to challenge the deeply embedded misogyny that has plagued the lives of women and girls for millennia. Advancements (which are far from universal) such as the right to vote, to own property, to obtain a divorce, to control our own reproduction, and many other human rights have been achieved by women with great sacrifice and struggle. Nevertheless, the threat of censure, internalized as a template of fear and self-loathing, continues to enforce the physical and psychological silencing of women and girls, even in privileged cultural contexts.
― Joan Marler, Re-visioning Medusa: from Monster to Divine Wisdom
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Linda Blade. Unsporting: How trans activism and science denial are destroying women’s sport. [2021] BOOK
https://www.unsporting.com/
Sharron Davies. Unfair play: The battle for women’s sport. [2023] BOOK
... her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex