Check out the winning projects!


** Congratulations to our Trans Inclusion in Sports Seed Grants recipients
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In 2022, the Williams Institute and Women’s Sports Foundation launched a seed grants program to support new research focused on trans students’ participation and inclusion in sports and related topics. Researchers and scholars from a variety of disciplines submitted proposals that will generate empirical data to inform current law and policy debates on trans students’ participation in K-12 school sports.

We are pleased to announce that six proposals have been selected to receive awards. Visit our website ([link removed]) for full descriptions of each project.


** Hearing the Embodied Experiences of Transgender
Youth Athletes
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Anna Baeth, PhD
Director of Research, Athlete Ally
Ellie Roscher, MFA
Author, The Embodied Path

Ali Greey, PhD candidate
University of Toronto
This project will interview youth ages 8 to 18 who self-identify as trans athletes to learn how they express their gender identities in sport, experience coming out and being out, and navigate the institutions and cultures of sport.


** Closing the (Research) Gaps: Understanding Team Sport Participation, Physical Activity, and Mental Health Among Transgender and Gender Diverse Adolescents
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Sarah H. Espinoza, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota
Jenifer K. McGuire, PhD
Professor, University of Minnesota
Using interviews with transgender youth, their parents, their coaches, and their cisgender teammates, this project will study trends in trans adolescents’ sport and physical activity participation and their mental health as it relates to sport.


** Political Determinants of Transgender and Nonbinary Health: A Quantitative Analysis of Youth School Sports Exclusion and Adult Health Beliefs and Behaviors
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Austin H. Johnson, PhD
Assistant Professor, Kenyon College
Brennan J. Miller, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Clemson University
This project uses existing data from a survey of LGBTQ people in the US Southeast to analyze how acceptance and inclusion in school sports and athletics affects health beliefs and behaviors in adulthood for trans and nonbinary people.


** How Subnational Policies Shape Transgender Inclusion in Sports: Promoting High-Quality Data and Policy Analysis through Scholar-Applied Expert Partnerships
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Elizabeth Sharrow, PhD
Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Logan Casey, PhD
Senior Policy Researcher, Movement Advancement Project

Chris Mosier
Founder, Transathlete.com
Christina Freibott, PhD candidate
Boston University

Anne Lieberman
Policy and Program Director,
Athlete Ally
This project will examine inclusion policies of the high school athletic association and proposed anti-trans legislation that targets school-sponsored athletics to identify and understand barriers to trans inclusion at the policy level.


** Who’s at Play: Assessing the Impact of Sports Bans on Trans Students in Texas
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Erika Slaymaker, PhD candidate
University of Texas at Austin
Using data from qualitative interviews with 30 transgender high school students in Texas, this project will investigate how HB 25, a law restricting trans students’ access to athletics, has affected youth participation in school sports and school activities more generally.


** Shaping Public Attitudes on Sports Participation by Transgender Youth
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Jami K. Taylor, PhD
Professor, University of Toledo
Donald P. Haider-Markel, PhD
Professor, University of Kansas

Daniel C. Lewis, PhD
Associate Professor, Siena College
Patrick R. Miller, PhD
Associate Professor, University of Kansas
This project will survey a demographically representative sample of the U.S. population to examine potential messaging that could change attitudes surrounding sports participation by transgender athletes.

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