Banning Transgender Athletes From Women’s Sports
Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee have enacted legislation to ban transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports.
The new laws set up potential showdowns with courts over their constitutionality and with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), which allows transgender athletes to compete in women’s sports.
Advocates for laws prohibiting transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports note that biological men have higher levels of testosterone, which aids muscle development and gives men and boys the advantage of “categorically different strength, speed, and endurance” over elite women, according to the Duke Law Center for Sports Law and Policy.Â
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), however, argues that these laws “discriminate against trans youth in ways that compromise their health, social and emotional development, and safety, they also raise a host of privacy concerns.”Â
Should transgender athletes be banned from competing in women’s sports?
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