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TRANSGENDER INCLUSION AND GIRLS’ SPORTS A Look at What’s at Stake

TRANSGENDER INCLUSION AND GIRLS’ SPORTS A Look at What’s at Stake AMERICAN JOURNAL OF LAW AND EQUALITY | ISSUE 3 | 2023 AMERICAN JOURNAL of LAW and EQUALITY TRANSGENDER INCLUSION AND GIRLS’ SPORTS A Look at What’s at Stake Kimberly A. Yuracko* Sports are social conventions through and through. There is nothing natural or predeter- mined about who gets to play and what one must do to win. But how sports are structured says a lot about what society values and whose interests it sees as top priorities. Hence the culture war over girls’ sports. This paper seeks to identify what society values about orga- nized sports and suggest how a society that strives to prioritize girls as highly as boys and transgender girls as highly as cisgender girls should allocate athletic opportunities. To date, the loudest voices in the fight over girls’ sports have been the most extreme. On one side are those who argue that transgender girls are girls and must always be treated as such. On the other side are those who argue that sex is determined at birth and can never be *Judd and Mary Morris Leighton Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. I thank Zach Clopton, Don Herzog, Mark Kelman, Andy Koppelman, Mac http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Journal of Law and Equality MIT Press

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© 2023 Kimberly A. Yuracko. Published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND).
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2694-5711
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10.1162/ajle_a_00051
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Abstract

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF LAW AND EQUALITY | ISSUE 3 | 2023 AMERICAN JOURNAL of LAW and EQUALITY TRANSGENDER INCLUSION AND GIRLS’ SPORTS A Look at What’s at Stake Kimberly A. Yuracko* Sports are social conventions through and through. There is nothing natural or predeter- mined about who gets to play and what one must do to win. But how sports are structured says a lot about what society values and whose interests it sees as top priorities. Hence the culture war over girls’ sports. This paper seeks to identify what society values about orga- nized sports and suggest how a society that strives to prioritize girls as highly as boys and transgender girls as highly as cisgender girls should allocate athletic opportunities. To date, the loudest voices in the fight over girls’ sports have been the most extreme. On one side are those who argue that transgender girls are girls and must always be treated as such. On the other side are those who argue that sex is determined at birth and can never be *Judd and Mary Morris Leighton Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. I thank Zach Clopton, Don Herzog, Mark Kelman, Andy Koppelman, Mac

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American Journal of Law and EqualityMIT Press

Published: Sep 15, 2023

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