Sarah Barker writes one of my favorite Substacks. It’s called TheFemaleCategory, and it’s a great place to learn about the history of men competing as women in sports, which has been going on for much longer than I realized.

Her bio reads: “I've been a journalist for forty years, a runner and a woman for longer than that, and am increasingly seeing the need to be actively feminist. Women's sports is where that happens for me, and why I established The Female Category.”

Sarah’s been published in the New York Times, Dead Spin, Runner’s World, Outside, Women’s Running, and more. I’m delighted to have her on the podcast today.

Links to articles from TheFemaleCategory discussed in the interview:

If Men Keep Taking Women's Opportunities and No Media Cover It, Did It Happen?

California Department of Education halted fitness testing, in part, because it was not inclusive of gender diverse kids

N=8: The miscarriage of science that allows trans-identified males to compete in women's sports

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Music by William A Ferguson

Logo by Anne Gibbons

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