‘There’s a harm there’: Supreme Court appears to side with bans on men in women’s sports
During a rally Tuesday hosted by the National Women’s Law Center, transgender advocates said conservatives are too focused on transgender athletes and not enough on “actual” problems with sexual abuse and lower pay in women’s sports.
Shiwali Patel, senior director of education justice at the center, said “the folks scapegoating trans athletes” are “silent on these actual issues.”
“They don’t care about women competing in sports, they care about controlling us. They want to define who we are, how we look, and whether we belong. Girls with short hair. Black and brown girls. Intersex girls. Trans girls. Girls who defy stereotypes,” Patel said.