The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) in Washington State released a proposal to create an open division for transgender athletes.
The Taliban has banned women in Afghanistan from attending nursing and midwifery classes, further eroding women's rights and jeopardizing the country’s fragile healthcare system.
Students at Martin Luther King High School in Riverside, California, have staged protests over the inclusion of a transgender athlete in girls' sports.
Former NCAA swimming champion and women’s sports advocate Riley Gaines organized a rally on December 4 in support of the Stone Ridge Christian High School girls’ volleyball team in California. The team forfeited a Northern California Division 6 playoff game last month after refusing to compete against an opponent with a male identifying as a female on its team.
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson suggested during oral arguments Wednesday that Tennessee’s law banning puberty blockers for minors could constitute sex discrimination. The case, United States v. Skrmetti, involves a Biden-Harris administration challenge to the law, which the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld.
Attorneys general from 24 Republican-led states are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold laws protecting women’s and girls’ sports by restricting participation to biological females. This move challenges a 9th Circuit Court ruling that froze Arizona’s law safeguarding women’s sports, citing potential violations of the Equal Protection Clause.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid shared a list of "achievements" for women over the last three years as a means of recognizing the United Nations' International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on November 25.
