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With the 2024 Paris Olympics starting Friday, the participation and treatment of transgender athletes in elite sport has come under intense scrutiny. While transgender rights have seen progress in recent years, a reactionary movement is working to reverse some of these gains.
Today in The Conversation Canada, Travers from Simon Fraser University writes about the backlash against transgender women and girls in sport. An increasing number of sport organizations are implementing policies banning or severely restricting transgender athletes from participating in sport.
Travers notes that this backlash is not only affecting transgender individuals, but also affects cisgender athletes who defy traditional gender norms. Such anti-trans campaigns are undermining gender equity in sports.
“What girls and women athletes need to thrive,” Travers writes, “are well-funded and gender-equitable sporting spaces that include transgender women and girls.”
Also today:
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The Olympic rings are seen at the Paris La Defense Arena, on June 12, 2024 in Nanterre, outside Paris, France.
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Travers, Simon Fraser University
While transgender people have gained some recognition and human rights in the past decade, a well-financed reactionary movement is rolling them back.
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A man reads hearts on the Covid Memorial Wall in London, July 18, 2024.
(Jonathan Brady/PA via AP)
Julian Jason Haladyn, OCAD University
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Natalina Salmaso, Carleton University
Debunking the myths surrounding antidepressant use is critical to enabling educated treatment decisions for people experiencing depression.
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Police tape blocks access to an alleyway at the scene of a homicide where six people were found dead in the Barrhaven suburb of Ottawa in March 2024.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Patrick Doyle
Irvin Waller, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa; Jeffrey Bradley, Carleton University
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Venezuelans gather in the Colombian capital, Bogotá, on April 6, 2024 to demand a free and fair process in Venezuela’s presidential election on July 28, 2024.
(AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
Tyler Valiquette, UCL; Cristián Valenzuela-Méndez, Northwestern University; Yvonne Su, York University, Canada
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Des résidents passent en revue leurs biens jetés dans la rue par les Red Ants, une société de sécurité privée spécialisée dans les expulsions, après avoir sécurisé un lotissement à Johannesburg, en Afrique du Sud, le mardi 25 août 2020.
La Presse canadienne/Jerome Delay
Fassou David Condé, Université de Montréal
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Health
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Francisco Javier Moreno Nuncio, Instituto de Salud Carlos III; Christopher Fernandez-Prada, Université de Montréal
Climate change is causing this disease to spread in Southern Europe, but governments are doing little to prevent it.
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Politics
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Philip Klinkner, Hamilton College
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