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Bisexual volleyball player and coach Brett Thompson has explained his reasons for coming out in response to a bigoted parent who questioned his suitability to teach. Thompson was head girls volleyball coach at West Salem High School in Wisconsin, the school he himself attended. In April 2018 he came out as bisexual after years of repressing
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Megan Rapinoe interviewed Joe and Jill Biden. (Megan Rapinoe/ Instagram) Lesbian icon and football star Megan Rapinoe has offered to be Joe Biden’s vice president, and we’d really love to see it. Rapinoe interviewed 2020 democratic nominee Joe Biden in an Instagram live on Thursday, April 30, alongside his wife Jill who was sporting a
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Stock image of athletics. On March 30, the eve of Trans Day of Visibility, Idaho governor Brad Little signed two anti-trans bills into law. One barred trans people from updating the gender on their birth certificate, the other barred trans girls and women from playing sport at school or college. The second law, HB500, bans
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Pride Sports has produced limited edition Football v Transphobia 2020 football shirts. (Football v Homophobia) This year, the second-ever Football v Transphobia week of action will take place between March 24 and March 31, ending on Transgender Day of Visibility. Football v Transphobia was created by Pride Sports, and aims to take specific action against
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Idaho legislators are blazing a bill that will ban trans girls from participating in school athletics. (Stock photograph via Elements Envato) For some strange reason amid panic around the coronavirus pandemic, Republican lawmakers in Idaho met Monday to push forward a “mean-spirited” bill banning trans and intersex girls from competing in school athletics. And with
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A World Rugby forum on transgender players in the sport has reached agreement on the “physiological basis of performance differences between men and women.” The organisation announced last week that it would be hosting a forum in London where participants would discuss current policies around transgender players and decide if they were fair and equitable.
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Catalans Dragons’ Israel Folau takes part in his first training session at the Gilbert Brutus stadium in Perpignan on February 12, 2020. (RAYMOND ROIG/AFP via Getty Images) Disgraced Australian rugby star Israel Folau has revealed he was considering retirement from the sport when he was handed a lucrative new deal with a European team. The
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