As transgender rights advocacy gains steam within the Democratic Party—and within the global Left, at large—many are increasingly debating how to reconcile this cultural ascendancy with the post-Title IX national flourishing of “women’s sports” as a distinct and crucial sub-genre of our national sporting landscape. Lawsuits, for example, abound. To wit: Should those who have transitioned their gender from male to female be able to athletically compete with biological women, or should they be required to compete against the biological men with whom their chromosomal structure matches? What risks, if any, does wider acceptance within women’s sports of those who have made a male-to-female sex-reassignment transition pose for the integrity of women’s sports as distinct athletic institutions?
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Writers Abigail Shrier and Juliet Jacques debate these very questions in our latest Newsweek “Debate of the Week.” We hope you enjoy the exchange.
Josh Hammer is Newsweek opinion editor, a syndicated columnist, a research fellow at the Edmund Burke Foundation and of counsel at First Liberty Institute.
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