Trans Girls Belong on Girls' Sports Teams

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March 16, 2021

Policy & Ethics Trans Girls Belong on Girls' Sports Teams There is no scientific case for excluding them By Jack Turban

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QUOTE OF THE DAY "Attempts to force transgender girls to play on the boys' teams are unconscionable attacks on already marginalized transgender children, and they don't address a real problem. They're unscientific, and they would cause serious mental health damage to both cisgender and transgender youth." Jack Turban, fellow in child and adolescent psychiatry at the Stanford University School of Medicine

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