Just Let Trans Girls Play Sports

September 30th, 2026, marked the 50th anniversary of the Hyde Amendment—a provision enacted in 1976 in response to the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision that legalized nationwide abortion. It restricts federally funded abortions through federal healthcare programs like Medicai ...  Show more

Viriginia plays a critical role for abortion access in the South. In fact, Virginia is the only southern state that did not enact a post-Dobbs abortion ban, leaving it the only southern state without a full abortion ban or extremely restrictive ban on the books. April Greene, Exe ...  Show more

President Biden hopes so. His administration is preparing to roll out new rules that would counter state and local bans aimed at keeping transgender youth out of sports. ESPN’s Katie Barnes explains. This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checke ...  Show more

House Republicans pushed through sweeping legislation on Tuesday to block transgender women and girls from school sports. The bill passed 218-206 in a vote that saw two Texas Democrats break ranks to support the Republican measure It’s the latest signal of a significant cultural ...  Show more

U.S. politicians are trying to keep trans kids from getting the medical care they need to transition — and states are banning them from playing on the sports teams that match their gender. So we’re looking at the science here, and asking: are the medical treatments for trans kids ...  Show more

One of Donald Trump’s most popular policies since being reinstated in the White House has been his recent banning of transgender athletes from women’s sports. There really hasn’t been any concerted orchestrated pushback from the Democratic Party, but individual left-wing activist ...  Show more