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
Aljazeera. "Taiwan’s Olympic medallist Lin Yu-ting quits boxing event over gender issue: Taiwanese officials withdraw Lin from the event in the UK to ‘avoid further harm’ to the Paris 2024 gold medallist." [2024]
https://archive.ph/PBw2O
Yuliah Alma. “'An injustice': Former Canadian Olympic head coach speaks out against results of 2016 Olympics, calls for sex-segregated sport.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/C5VgM
Associated Press. “World swimming bans transgender athletes from women’s events.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/wip/ErTw5
Leonardo Azevedo Mobilia Alvares, Marcelo Rodrigues Santos, Francis Ribeiro Souza, Lívia Marcela Santos, Berenice Bilharinho de Mendonça, Elaine Maria Frade Costa, Maria Janieire Nazaré Nunes Alves, Sorahia Domenice. “Trans women's heart-lung capacity and strength exceed cis peers even after years of hormone therapy.” [2022]
https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/56/22/1292
Sarah Barker. "The IOC is willing to bet on women's lives." [2024]
https://archive.ph/wip/tufSZ
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
Daniel Boffey. "Paris Olympic Games 2024: Sharron Davies encourages Khelif and Lin’s opponents to challenge defeats." [2024] https://archive.ph/uK9Ht
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
Owen Brown. "Leaked medical report ‘proves Imane Khelif is biological male’: Sex-test results which debunk IOC’s stance on controversial Olympic boxing champion published online." [2025]
https://archive.ph/TAJOc
Center for Disease Control. “Mean body weight, height, and body mass index, United States 1960–2002”
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/ad/ad347.pdf
Eddie Chau. “Surfer Bethany Hamilton refuses to compete with transgender women: She’d prefer to see the WSL start a new division ‘so that all can have a fair opportunity to showcase their passion and talent.’” [2023]
https://archive.ph/qFrUR
Civic Impulse, LLC. “S. 613: Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2023.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/uKTLQ
Kristen Conti. “IOC announces new rules for transgender athletes before Paris 2004 Olympics.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/2KWmt
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
Jeff Eisenberg. "Paris Olympics: IOC doubles down on its decision to permit 2 boxers who failed unspecified gender eligibility tests to compete: Imane Khelif defeated Italy's Angela Carini on Thursday after Carini abandoned the bout after just 46 seconds, setting off a worldwide firestorm." [2024]
https://archive.ph/wip/U0TzU
Libby Emmons. "Former UPenn female swimmer testifies that teammates of Lia Thomas were forced to undergo 're-education' to make them 'comfortable with the idea of undressing in front of a male’: 'My teammates and I were forced to undress in the presence of Lia, a 6' 4" tall biological male, fully intact with male genitalia 18 times per week’.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/qYaYh
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
Emma N. Hilton, and Tommy R. Lundberg. “Transgender women in the female category of sport: Perspectives on testosterone suppression and performance advantage.” [2021]
https://archive.ph/qvizu
Jeanna Hoch. “Lia Thomas wants respect—Well, so do women.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/t2ERL
International Boxing Association. "IBA reaffirms the position and removal of boxers from all events, aims to protect female boxers, and condemns both the International Olympic Committee and World Boxing for allowing ineligible athletes to compete." [2024]
https://archive.ph/8jnAt
Virginia Kruta. “‘Did this just say PEACEFUL?’: Riley Gaines unloads on San Francisco State’s response to attack.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/wip/uoWwr
Graham Linehan. “Thousands of complaints filed after trans YouTuber allowed to play on women’s football league, reportedly injured players: Riley Dennis is another male cheat in women's sports.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/wip/QMy3i
John Lohn. “A look at the numbers and times: No denying the advantages of Lia Thomas.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/6kPcG
Rick Maese. "At 15, she skated for Team USA. At 42, she’s still fighting it.: Bridie Farrell’s years-long battle with the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee underscores the grueling reality of taking abuse claims to court, advocates say." [2024]
https://archive.ph/jtq6F
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
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
Asher McShane. “Trans woman, 29, beats girl, 13, to win women's skateboarding contest in NYC.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/wip/4jYla
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. "How can we ensure fairness for female athletes while including trans-identified males?" [2024}
https://archive.ph/2Jmll
Sabrina Penty. "Parents of volleyball player left with brain damage by trans opponent who knocked her to the ground break their silence and call for other families to 'pull your kid' from games." [2024]
https://archive.ph/sFF7y
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
Ross Pomeroy. "The blunt scientific truth about transgender women’s athletic ability: Even after a decade of hormone therapy, trans women are stronger and faster than cis women.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/Lw7d5
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
Redactie MT-Inegraal. “Differences between men and women in sports.” (translated by Pastbin) [2023]
https://pastebin.com/Q8aikVtD
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
Dan Roan. "British Cycling to ban transgender women from competing in female category.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/wip/qydDs
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
Jennifer Sieland. "International Olympic Committee was warned about male boxers, World Boxing Organization Vice President says." [2024]
https://archive.ph/5U3um
Sky News. "Transgender World Cup swimming races sunk after no one enters: The open category was set up to accommodate transgender swimmers after restrictions were imposed on them.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/optfk
Jennifer Smith. “'I'm not going to go easy on them just because they're kids': Trans skateboarder, 29, defends competing against young girls and insists she [sic!] doesn't have a physical advantage.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/jGP0R
Eric Spitznagel. “Trans women athletes have unfair advantage over those born female: testosterone.” [2021]
https://archive.ph/mKS4h
Kathleen Stock. "On your bike, Vogue — we can see what you think of women’s sport: The only athlete on the magazine’s list of powerful females is a trans cyclist with odd ideas on diversity.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/w568K
Amelia Strickler. “Trans TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney makes total mockery of female athletes like me.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/wip/wwirZ
Greg Wehner. “Riley Gaines tells Congress she was held for ransom at San Francisco State, unsure if she could leave safely.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/wip/XjKWq
Why Evolution Is True. “Woman opposing participation of trans women on women’s sports teams assaulted at SFSU.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/wip/Rxq9u
Bronwyn Winter. "Sucker punched Part 2: The end of my short-lived interest in boxing." [2024]
https://archive.ph/wip/jCRwL
World Rugby. “Transgender women guidelines.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/wip/5rZWI
Shay Woulahan. “EXCLUSIVE: Trans-identified male playing in women’s field hockey club injured female player.” [2023’
https://archive.ph/gwn33
Colin Wright. "Are the Olympic boxers’ XY DNA test results ‘Russian disinformation’?: There are no good reasons to doubt the IBA's claim that both Khelif and Yu Ting have XY chromosomes." [2024]
https://archive.ph/cL35t
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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Crain and Company. “Riley Gaines AMBUSHED & Biden Administration pushes new trans rule.” [2023] VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNHW3mcEnno
Fair Play for Women. “The inclusion delusion.” [2023] VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFQLkDHqf84
Riley Gaines. Testimony of Riley Gaines before the House Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability (Chairman Dan Bishop (R-NC)), May 16, 2023. [2023] VIDEO
https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_
(Verbatim transcript) https://docs.house.gov/meetings/HM/HM09/20230516/115946/HHRG-118-HM09-W…
KTVU Fox 2 San Francisco. "Swimmer Riley Gaines 'ambushed,' 'physically hit.' [2023] VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQJsK-LGlyc
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
Carole Hooven. T: The story of testosterone, the hormone that dominates and divides us. [2021] ONLINE BOOK
https://archive.ph/v3eQy
... her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex