Written by In Episode 1, I start to introduce you to some of the legal scholars and advocates I interviewed in my research. Their remarks all come from recorded interviews that are available in full via provided links. I excerpted these specific portions to frame my approach to discussing the significance of excluding transgender youth from playing sports with their peers. In addition to causing direct harm to individuals, participation bans create broader social harms that we should find extremely concerning. If we value the provision of a well-rounded and robust primary educational experience to all children, then it strikes me as profoundly inconsistent to support cutting trans and non-binary kids out of a significant aspect of that experience. It is important to this issue that we consider what an education consists of, and the role athletics plays in our educational institutions.
