Journal

It does lead to the question, though. How can trans athletes compete safely, and ensure equity and/or safety for biologically female competitors? In some sports, weight divisions may solve the issue. In some sports, three divisions may be needed. In some other sports, it may be that there are already open divisions.

I've been coaching women's sport for a bit over a decade (namely lacrosse) and in that time I have made the leap from someone who watched almost exclusively men's sport, to some one who watches a whole lot of women's sport too. While I wanted to call this piece "Why Marty Sheargold needs to remember his arse isn't a hat and should pull his head out of it" I decided on the above because I feel it is to the point, concise and is friendly enough that men won't become overly emot

Myself (left) and Clive (right) in 2016 at the under 19 Lacrosse World Championship in BC, Canada. My younger brother was representing Australia in this tournament. I’ve been fortunate through my life in that I’ve not experienced the loss of many relatives or friends so far. I was lucky enough to have three grandparents when I was born and I kept them into adulthood. My maternal grandmother made it to eighty-nine and my paternal grandfather made it to ninety-seven (his aim to