In 2021 alone, eight states passed and signed laws that ban transgender athletes from sports with a majority specifically targeting transgender girls and women. Transgender girls and women continue to be excluded from sport, keeping them from gaining the benefits that come from participating in sports.
The Women’s Sports Foundation, Athlete Ally and Lambda Legal partnered to file a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, urging the court to affirm a lower court ruling dismissing a challenge to the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference’s (CIAC’s) trans-inclusive policy enabling transgender students to participate in school sports.
Top athletes in women’s sports joined WSF, Athlete Ally and the Women’s National Basketball Players Association as signatories and in expressing their support for transgender girls and women in sports. With nearly 150 athlete signatories to the brief, this incredible group stands together in the fight for equality that all girls and all women in sports deserve.
You can read the text of the brief here, and WSF’s joint release about the brief here. See below for a list of some of the prominent athlete signatories.
Billie Jean King
Megan Rapinoe
Layshia Clarendon
Meghan Duggan
Phaidra Knight
Aimee Mullins
Brianna Turner
Meike Babel
Gwen Berry
Jaycee Cooper
Imani Dorsey
Grete Eliassen
Sophia Herzog
Angela Hucles
Veronica Ivy
Lori Lindsey
Oksana Masters
Kaiya McCollough
Jessica Mendoza
Elena Meyers Taylor
Nzingha Prescod
Maya Reddy
Angela Ruggiero
Becky Sauerbrunn
Naya Tapper
CeCé Telfer
Chelsea Wolfe