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How manly do you like your male cheerleaders?
Gender norms and cheerleading norms are always in flux, each at their own pace. Sometimes they align, and sometimes they clash.
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George MJ Perry
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How manly do you like your male cheerleaders?
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There is not a single legacy women's organization that is working for women
If you've been supporting organizations like the Women's Sports Foundation, you'd better read Women's Liberation Front's Open Letter to Legacy…
Aug 14
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Sarah Barker
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There is not a single legacy women's organization that is working for women
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Minnesotastan: Where it's unlawful to have female-only sports
Or: I try to read the law. Fight me if I got it wrong
Aug 8
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Sarah Barker
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Minnesotastan: Where it's unlawful to have female-only sports
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July 2025
They self-identified as nonbinary, they self-identified as worthy of prize money. Can they self-identify as elite?
A textbook example of activist overreach is underway at the Philadelphia Marathon
Jul 30
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Sarah Barker
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They self-identified as nonbinary, they self-identified as worthy of prize money. Can they self-identify as elite?
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The Department of Education's Power is Worth $175M. Women's Sports is Worth Nothing
You’ll pardon me if I, like Paula Scanlan to whom this insult was addressed, am not limp with slavering gratitude to the University of Pennsylvania for…
Jul 18
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Sarah Barker
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The Department of Education's Power is Worth $175M. Women's Sports is Worth Nothing
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Washington drafted the nation's first male inclusion policy back in 2007. Why?
Aidan Key: "I'm not sure of the impetus. There were very few out trans kids at the time."
Jul 10
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Sarah Barker
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Washington drafted the nation's first male inclusion policy back in 2007. Why?
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June 2025
"It makes me feel expendable."
A Washington track athlete and her mom speak out
Jun 21
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Sarah Barker
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"It makes me feel expendable."
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Tale of Two Males in Girls' Sports
How exceptional were AB Hernandez's and Marissa Rothenberger's performances?
Jun 8
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Sarah Barker
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Tale of Two Males in Girls' Sports
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You'll have the good taste to shut up and smile now that it's evident we've been violating your Title IX rights for a decade
This email was sent out to the families and girls on the Eagan (Minnesota) High School softball team on the eve of their quarterfinal playoff game…
Jun 5
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Sarah Barker
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You'll have the good taste to shut up and smile now that it's evident we've been violating your Title IX rights for a decade
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Foul Balls
How girls' sports in Minnesota is rigged against them
Jun 2
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Sarah Barker
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Foul Balls
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May 2025
Canada's new sports minister owes female athletes clarity on sex-based categories
Adam van Koeverden can start by "telling Canadian men and boys to accept feminine males in the same way female athletes have always accepted tomboys."
May 29
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George MJ Perry
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Canada's new sports minister owes female athletes clarity on sex-based categories
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Doped then, transitioned now.
The East German doping scandal is a tragic blueprint for the health effects of testosterone on female bodies. If known more widely, it could help both…
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May 26
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