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How high school sports became the latest battleground over transgender rights

  • Written by Elizabeth A. Sharrow, Associate Professor of Public Policy and History, University of Massachusetts Amherst
imageHigh school athletes, including Terry Miller and Andraya Yearwood, both transgender girls, compete in New Haven, Connecticut, in 2019.AP Photo/Pat Eaton-Robb

This year, 20 states proposed to ban transgender girls – meaning those assigned male at birth but who live and identify as girls – from competing on girls interscholastic sports...

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