(from Kojo Nnamdi Show) Grace Brethren Christian School decided to leave the Potomac Valley Athletic Conference because schools were allowing trans athletes to play sports on teams based on their trans gender. "Allowing boys to play on girls teams is a form of cheating, and it gives an advantage over girls teams who only play female athletes," the school director wrote in a letter to the Washington Post.
How are sports leagues addressing calls to create gender-inclusive policies — and calls to maintain “fairness” in competition by accounting for the physiological differences of trans athletes? And what do these policies mean for the athletes who are navigating them? Some argue that physiological differences are minor compare to mental focus. Others say boys have an unfair advantage in girls' sports; in Connecticut, for example, the top two sprinters in the state are now male students in the process of transitioning to being female.
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