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The US swimmer Lia Thomas is taking legal action in a bid to compete again in elite female sport

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week

One of the country’s top swimmers is to trial for the NZ team for the first time since 2017. This time she could qualify for the Paris Olympics in multiple events. Dave Crampton reports.

Trans athletes in sports is an issue that is dividing the nation.

It’s a crazy gender world out there, folks. And, of course, the battlefield over transgender citizens’ societal and political rights has coalesced — where else? — in the so-called toy department known as sports.

The mind-boggling decision by the chess world’s governing body is just the latest absurdity in an accelerating run of panics around trans athletes.

The governing body of swimming says it will set up an “open category” that will include transgender competitors

Anti-trans activists want us to believe that transgender female athletes pose the gravest danger to cis girls’ and women’s bodies, success and scholarships. They couldn’t be more wrong

There’s no secret why there’s been a rash of legislative proposals across the United States in recent months aimed at transgender and nonbinary people. The various measures seek to restrict where individuals can go to the bathroom and whether they can receive gender-affirming care. Most recently, the legislation is aimed…

AUSTIN, Texas — Transgender athletes can’t play on Texas college sports teams that don’t align with their birth sex under a new law signed by Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday.

Weird choice, but OK?