Transgender Inclusion and Girls' Sports: A Look at What's at Stake

Abstract

Sports are social conventions through and through. There is nothing natural or predetermined about who gets to play and what one must do to win. But how sports are structured says a lot about what society values and whose interests it sees as top priorities. Hence the culture war over girls’ sports. This paper seeks to identify what society values about organized sports and suggest how a society that strives to prioritize girls as highly as boys and transgender girls as highly as cisgender girls should allocate athletic opportunities.

Keywords: antidiscrimination, Title IX, sports, transgender

JEL Classification: K10, K19, K30, K39, K40, K49