Let Them Play: How Welcoming Trans Athletes Can Improve Sports Culture for All (www.texasobserver.org)

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Three recent books press us to understand the humanity and lives of gender-expansive athletes.

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[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

In baseball for example there have been some women playing professionally for minor league teams, and some time ago for the first time in D1 college baseball

My brain tells me every decade or so someone new does it again

[-] WaterSword@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 hours ago

reading up on it apparently there was a woman in the mlb who struck out babe ruth, and then the mlb banned women for a while, but the ban was lifted in the 70s.

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