Archive - TheFemaleCategory

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 •

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 •

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 •

June 2025

"It makes me feel expendable."

A Washington track athlete and her mom speak out

Jun 21 •

Tale of Two Males in Girls' Sports

How exceptional were AB Hernandez's and Marissa Rothenberger's performances?

Jun 8 •

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 •

How girls' sports in Minnesota is rigged against them

Jun 2 •

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 •

George MJ Perry

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…

Published on Gender Studies: Beyond the Rainbow • May 26

Are there really so few boys in girls' sports?

There are so few.

May 18 •

Engarde! The New York Times misleads again

Be still my blood pressure, my very favorite in the New York Times’ stable of Andrew Tate wannabes, Jere…

May 8 •

BBC Sport: our submission to the Thematic Review

This was submitted to the BBC last year as part of the Review of Portrayal and Representation.

Published on SEENinJournalism’s Substack • May 5

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