Dec 17, 2021 · The district court’s hold on the law means female athletes must compete against males who identify as female while the lawsuit proceeds. ADF attorneys are asking the 9th Circuit to reverse the district court’s order, and so are numerous female athletes, medical professionals, feminist groups, and 14 states that filed friend-of-the-court briefs.
Feb 20, 2017 · Attorney suing USA Gymnastics for failing to protect female athletes believes every Olympic team since 1996 has had members abused by Dr. Lawrence Nassar
Jan 23, 2022 · Gov. Kristi Noem says transgender athlete bill ‘strongest' in the nation to protect women's sports 'This is about making sure that our girls have a …
An attorney representing the woman accusing a top NFL prospect of raping her at a downtown Cleveland hotel says his client had no idea who the player was and had never met him before.
Olympic gold medal gymnast Simone Biles told reporters earlier this week. Biles, in Kansas City for the U.S. Gymnastics' Championship, said that USA Gymnastics failed to protect her and other athletes from Larry Nassar, the former team doctor. Nassar is now in prison serving time for numerous counts of sexual assault.
Dianne Feinstein: No. Senator Dianne Feinstein is the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. She's met with the women we interviewed and other gymnasts and is now working on legislation to correct what she sees as a problem in the reporting of sexual abuse complaints.
A very severe hip problem. And USA Gymnastics suggested that I go to the Karolyi Ranch to work with their doctor. The Karolyi ranch outside Houston, Texas, is a mecca for elite gymnasts who have given up any semblance of normal childhood to pursue their Olympic dreams.
Jessica Howard: He was so sure of himself. And as a young girl, you're confused. You don't know what's going on. Jessica Howard was the U.S. national champion in rhythmic gymnastics from 1999 to 2001. Jeanette Antolin competed with the U.S. national team from 1995 to 2000.
Jeanette Antolin competed with the U.S. national team from 1995 to 2000. She helped UCLA win three national championships. Jamie Dantzscher won a bronze medal in the 2000 Olympics and was recently inducted into UCLA's Athletic Hall of Fame.
Lawrence Nassar, an osteopathic physician, was one of the most famous doctors in the world of gymnastics. As a trainer and doctor he worked with Olympic and national womens' artistic gymnastics teams for more than two decades. That's him right after Kerri Strug's famous ankle injury in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.
USA Gymnastics president Steve Penny declined to speak with us on camera about Dr. Nassar. In a statement, the organization said it is "appalled that anyone would exploit a young athlete or child in this manner.". USA Gymnastics "first learned of an athlete's concern about Dr. Nassar in June 2015," the statement said.
In 2018, for example, following the death of Jordan McNair, an offensive lineman at the University of Maryland, during a drill, an external report found "a culture where problems festered because too many players feared speaking out."
Ben Tepper, a professor of organizational psychology at Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business, told Insider that college sports often provide "the perfect storm" of circumstances that can lead to abuse.
Shannon Thomas, a trauma therapist, said that the people conducting these investigations are most often trained in law and procedure — they might not know what psychological and emotional abuse looks like and might overlook it. "It would be like having a foot doctor try to diagnose brain cancer," Thomas said.
In March 2019, Taryn Taugher wrote an article for the Odyssey about her time in Northern Kentucky University's women's basketball program, where she said head coach Camryn Whitaker humiliated, intimidated, and manipulated her and others so much that eight players quit the team.
Hillary Dole's problems didn't end after the hazing incident that broke her nose. While she recovered from her injuries, Julie Farlow told her she was falling behind by not attending practice, Dole said.
Anna Ficker's college volleyball career took a turn when Jennifer Fekpe was promoted from assistant to head coach of Ohio Dominican University's program. "We were always kind of scared of her when she was the assistant coach," Ficker, played for the team for four years, until she graduated in 2019, told Insider.
Another player on the Cornell softball team, Olivia Lam, said Farlow had little sympathy for her injuries. She told Insider that Farlow encouraged her to cheat on the concussion test that would clear her for playing again in her freshman year. After that, she said, things only got worse.
Many who oppose the inclusion of trans athletes erroneously claim that allowing trans athletes to compete will harm cisgender women. This divide and conquer tactic gets it exactly wrong. Excluding women who are trans hurts all women.
Women and girls who are trans face discrimination and violence that makes it difficult to even stay in school. According to the U.S. Trans Survey, 22 percent of trans women who were perceived as trans in school were harassed so badly they had to leave school because of it. Another 10 percent were kicked out of school.
Girls who are trans are told repeatedly that they are not “real” girls and boys who are trans are told they are not “real” boys. Non-binary people are told that their gender is not real and that they must be either boys or girls. None of these statements are true. Trans people are exactly who we say we are.
Trans people have the same right to play sports as anybody else. “For the past nine years,” explains Carroll, “transgender athletes have been able to compete on teams at NCAA member collegiates and universities consistent with their gender identity like all other student-athletes with no disruption to women’s collegiate sports.”
Marirose Roach is an attorney and former scholarship track and soccer athlete at Temple University who also plays semiprofessional football in the Women’s Football Alliance. Hannah C. Price for The Undefeated. Especially for black female athletes, the messages around the courts can be harsh, dehumanizing and constant.
And three world-class athletes talk about the personal side of being a black woman in sports. Lonnae O’Neal is a senior writer at The Undefeated. She’s an author, a former columnist, has a rack of kids and she writes bird by bird. This Story Tagged: ESPN The Magazine The Body Issue No Ceilings Black Female Athletes.
International Swimming Federation apologizes to Soul Cap for the dismissal of its Tokyo Olympics application. Alice Dearing is a Soul Cap ambassador who will compete in the Olympic Games as the first Black woman to swim for Great Britain. Soul Cap. By Dorothy J. Gentry.
Watts recalls being at the CIF California State high school track meet in 2014. While he was there to watch someone else, a man came up to him, pointing him in a different direction.