Photos credit I-Karate taken by Sportfile The Inclusive Karate World Cup took place in Dublin, with teams from 13 countries including 47 Irish athletes taking to the mats. The hairs were rising on the back of my neck watching the parade come in, led by…
Month: April 2019
Investigating the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights Title IX enforcement records, journalist Tyler Kingkade discovered that the agency has a resolved at least 70 cases and found many problems with the sexual misconduct policies and prac…
Recently I was reading about mindfulness techniques that are helpful for athlete performance and realized just how easily these same tips could also be applied to former athletes and even non-athletes. What is mindfulness exactly? Mindfulness is allowing yourself to bring awareness to what is happening in the current moment. This involves being considerate of […]
I was pleased to read that all-male HBCU Morehouse College has opened its admission to transgender men. But the policy also requires all students admitted to Morehouse to identify as male for the duration of their education there, saying that any stude…
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has reportedly granted a stay that pauses a district court’s order that Eastern Michigan University reinstate its women’s softball team. As we blogged about last fall, the district court granted a preliminary injuncti…
I’d heard that kayaker Dee Fenlon was getting into powerlifting but only realised how serious this leap was when I saw her lift 211kg at the Irish championships. So of course, I had to track her down for a chat before she heads to the Worlds in June.&n…
As strong intelligent women we can often reject the need for validation, but the reality is we all like and need to hear words of affirmation from time to time.
A district court in Illinois issued a ruling yesterday on a school district’s motion to dismiss the various claims in a lawsuit filed by parents challenging its policy of permitting transgender students to use facilities that correspond to their gender…
An Equal Protection challenge to a public charter school’s gendered dress code recently survived summary judgment. But the court dismissed the plaintiff’s Title IX claim. As we noted in an earlier post about this case, the plaintiffs are a group of par…
After the London Olympics people said women’s boxing was having a moment but in Ireland that moment is really only going public in the last year. It’s been building in gyms around the country and now you can see women fighting on many of the big …