TheFemaleCategory
Read interviews, studies, and essays from those who support sex-segregated women's sports.
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- Sep 29, 2026
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- Jul 5, 2026
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What “anti-trans” and “pro-trans” really looks like (opens the original)
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How I know Coaching HER is anti-girl ideological indoctrination, the long and short of it (opens the original)
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Coaching HER HIMI was interviewed recently “on camera” (not my preferred medium) by Fox News about the “educational” program aimed at girls’ coaches, Coaching HER, that I investigated in three long articles in 2024. I may not have made my point in this interview. I may, instead, have inadverten
23 states abolished girls’ sports years ago. Why are they still calling it girls’ sports? (opens the original)
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GIRLS’ SPORTS + BOYS = GIRLS’ SPORTS? Nope.GIRLS’ SPORTS + BOYS = MIXED SEX SPORTSCalling something what it’s not has covered up the utter abolition of a major sports category, deeming half the population unworthy of rights or protections in sports. Yet, so effective has this lie been that the vast majority of people, even those most directly affected, are unaware they’ve lost all meaning and value as a group.I’m talking about girls’ sports. Girls’ sports in 23 states have been abolished. Haven’
Adventures in Activizing (opens the original)
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Wade's World: "it felt like too many of the women I was writing about didn’t have the backs of other women, immigrants, trans people, or other members of marginalized groups" (opens the original)
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Alison Wade’s world is a scary place. Bear in mind, her expertise, her business is writing about women’s professional running, something that has, from it’s quite recent inception, been controversial. Not content with the considerable and wide-ranging burden of sexism women’s sports has always battled, Alison upped the ante by advocating for women’s professional running that includes men. You may have to read that several times. In between articles about how pregnancy and RED-S affect her subjec
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