Category: Sport
Former AFL player Leigh Ryswyk has publicly come out as gay, becoming the first male AFL player — past or present — to do so. Ryswyk shared the news during an interview on GayFL, the JOY 94.9 football radio show, explaining that while he has been out privately for several years, he felt ready to […]
The number of transgender women who have competed at the Olympics is far smaller than the culture-war debate around the issue might suggest. That conversation has intensified again after the International Olympic Committee confirmed a new policy that will bar transgender women from women’s events from the Los Angeles 2028 Games onward, with eligibility tied […]
Non-binary runner Nikki Hiltz has spoken out against the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) newly announced ban on trans women competing in women’s events at the Olympic Games. The IOC revealed the policy on 26 March, saying that eligibility for female categories will now be decided through one-time gene-screening sex tests. According to the committee, the […]
A transgender golfer has launched legal action challenging changes to eligibility rules in women’s professional golf after being denied entry to a US Women’s Open qualifier. Hailey Davidson filed the lawsuit on Thursday (19 March) in New Jersey, naming the United States Golf Association (USGA), the LPGA, three LPGA officials and a golf club that […]
American skier Jake Adicoff has made history at the Winter Paralympics, becoming the first openly gay athlete to win an individual winter Paralympic gold medal — and capping off the achievement with an extraordinary four-gold clean sweep. The 30-year-old from Sun Valley, Idaho, competed in the vision-impaired category and set an ambitious goal ahead of […]
British female track and field athletes are being told they may need to pay for their own eligibility tests to compete in international competitions under new requirements tied to World Athletics regulations. World Athletics — the global governing body for athletics — now requires athletes competing in the women’s category at major championships and Diamond […]
Rainbow Games trustee Paea Longopoa shares her journey growing up queer in a Tongan family in Auckland, navigating culture, identity and finding belonging through rugby and Pacific-led rainbow spaces. Paea Longopoa grew up in Auckland as the only daughter in a Tongan family of five children. Her parents migrated from Tonga in the early 1970s, […]
A transgender amateur cricketer says she feels “completely heartbroken” after being abruptly barred from her local club following a policy change by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB). Lily — whose name has been changed to protect her identity — had played at her local club for years, serving as captain, coaching junior teams […]