Sports Law: Federal and Ohio: Transgender

4/6/23 Regarding transgender students participating in sports

Ohio High School Athletic Association

"Save Women's Sports Act" and "Save Adolescents from Experimentation Act (SAFE Act)" are now together, DeWine vetoed it 12/29/23. Will the legislature overrule veto?

Espn 3/17/22

Movement Advancement Project, tracks legislation in the 50 states, last visited 6/9/23

ESPN 6/19/22

12/22

The Hill 7/21/21

USNews.com 4/9/24

1/19/22 The NCAA has a sport-by-sport approach to transgender participation. The new policy, effective immediately, aligns transgender student-athlete participation for college sports with recent policy changes (PDF) from the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee and International Olympic Committee. Like the Olympics, the updated NCAA policy calls for transgender participation for each sport to be determined by the policy for the national governing body of that sport.

NPR 5/17/22

2/4/22

Reuters 10/14/21

Policies of many athletic organizations, including the US and international Olympic committees

The Hill 6/21/22

NPR 3/3/22

W. Va.'s ban against transgender athlete's violated the plaintiff's Title IX rights.

A law banning transgender students from female sports likely violates the Equal Protection Clause.

Reuters, 11/6/23

AP News 6/12/24 The Court of Arbitration for Sport said no to her case.