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LGBTQI2S+ stories and news in sport are more prominent than ever before. See below for the latest news features involving LGBTQI2S+ athletes, coaches, officials, and more.
Paul Poirier on Pride, Progress, and the Next Generation of Queer Athletes
Lance Chung | Glory Media | June 11, 2021 Athletes have always held a special role within society. As ambassadors of their sport, their communities, and (if they’re the best) their countries, they take on an immense amount of pressure and responsibility to be role...
Kaitlyn Weaver hopes her coming out story finally breaks figure skating’s female archetype
Devin Heroux | CBC | June 11, 2021 It's a sport laced with creativity, beauty and strength. Ice dance is poetry in motion, two skaters weaving gracefully across the ice surface together as one. Their precision and symmetry is something to marvel over. But figure...
Weightlifter Hubbard to be 1st transgender athlete to compete at Olympics
Kiwi will be oldest weightlifter at Games, ranked 4th in women's heavyweight division The Associated Press | CBC | June 20, 2021 Weightlifter Laurel Hubbard will be the first transgender athlete to compete at the Olympics. Hubbard was among five...
Yes, Trans People Belong in Sports
The scrutiny of women’s bodies is the real threat to women’s sports—not the presence of trans women and girls. By Layshia Clarendon | Marie Claire | February 5, 2021 Glennon Doyle has a quote in her book Untamed that reads, “We are mugs filled to the brim,...
Player agent gets lots of support from hockey community after coming out
TSN.ca An NHL player agent is getting a lot support from some of hockey’s biggest stars after letting them know he is gay. “Anyone that I’ve told now, it’s actually been somewhat overwhelming,’’ said Bayne Pettinger in an exclusive story written by TSN Hockey...
World Rugby criticised by dozens of academics for trans women ban
By Sean Ingle | The Guardian | September 1, 2020 World Rugby’s proposals to ban trans women from playing women’s rugby have been criticised by dozens of academics, who have written to the sport’s governing body to insist there is “no evidence” that trans women pose a...
Ensuring LGBTQ Inclusion in Sports
By Greta Anderson | Inside Higher ED | April 5, 2021 An advocacy group for LGBTQ equality in sports that grades Division I athletic departments' policies and practices is raising awareness about inclusion of transgender athletes and pushing colleges to do better....
Canada a ‘laggard’ on homophobia in sports, studies show
The Canadian Press | December 4, 2020 Canadian volleyball player Chris Voth says nation should be 'further ahead' in combating homophopic language Chris Voth's sexuality cost him a job with a professional volleyball team overseas four years ago. The Winnipeg native,...
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