The Sports Arena Has Become Conservatives’ Favorite Anti-Trans Battleground

The ‘debate’ over trans student-athletes relies on ancient — and false — ideas about women’s weakness

Jude Ellison S. Doyle
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6 min readFeb 17, 2021

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In the early 2000s, I used to debate feminism with straight men. It’s a losing game, and I don’t advise you to try it, but I was in college, so chalk it up to youthful…

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Jude Ellison S. Doyle
GEN
Writer for

Author of “Trainwreck” (Melville House, ‘16) and “Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers” (Melville House, ‘19). Columns published far and wide across the Internet.