First published on April 29th, 2024
SELECTED RESOURCES (in alphabetical order)
Graphically illustrates the male advantage in sport by comparing teen-aged boys vs women’s records in track and field events and swimming.
Coleman, Doriane Lambelet. Former elite athlete and current law professor at Duke University.
Coleman, D.L. “Sex, Sport, and Why Track and Field’s New Rules on Intersex Athletes Are Essential.” The New York Times, April 30, 2018.
Coleman, D.L, Joyner, M.J. and Lopiano, D.A. “Re-Affirming the Value of the Sports Exception to Title IX’s General Non-Discrimination Rule.” Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy, March, 2020.
Coleman, D.L., “Sex in Sport,” Duke University School of Law, Vol. 80, No. 4, Sex in Sport (2017), pp. 63-126.
Devine, Cathy. British researcher on sports policy.
Devine is a staunch advocate for female-only sport and knows the research thoroughly. Worth following on twitter; she has strong rebuttals for every argument in favor of trans-identified males in female sport. @cathydevine56
Devine, Cathy, “Female Olympians’ voices: Female sports categories and the International Olympic Committee Transgender Guidelines,” International Review for the Sociology of Sport, June 2021.
Devine, Cathy, et al., “When Ideology Trumps Science: A response to the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport’s Review on Transwomen Athletes in the Female Category,” published on idrottsforum.org, November 29, 2022.
Duke University Center for Sports Policy & Law
Comparing Athletic Performances: The Best Elite Women to Boys and Men.
Hilton, Emma. British developmental biologist and co-founder of sex-matters.org
One of the best, if not the best, scientists writing about these issues. There is a wealth of useful information in her work.
Harder, better, faster, stronger: why we must protect female sport.
Hilton, Emma and Lundberg, Tommy, “Transgender Women in The Female Category of Sport: Perspectives on testosterone suppression and performance advantage.” Sports Medicine. 2021;51: (PMID 33289906 and doi: 10.1007/s40279-020-01389-3).
Tracks female athletes who were displaced by males in women’s sporting events and other types of competitions expressly for women.
Women’s Sports Policy Working Group
Comprised of former elite athletes (including Martina Navratilova, Mariah Burton Nelson, and Nancy Hogshead-Makar) and sports administrators, this organization advocates for female-only sport. They wrote, hands-down, the best public comment on the Title IX proposed rule changes for sport. Passionate and grounded in evidence, their statement will have you punching the air. Read it for inspiration - and citations you can use.
WSPWG tracks and rates US and international sports policies on inclusion of trans-identified males in female sport. They also tracked and provided details on hundreds of male victories in female sport, before it became more than they could handle. They recommend shewon.org going forward.
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