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Biden is expected to embrace transgender ideology, including supporting biological men competing in sports against biological women.

Chuck Schumer said he is on board with Joe Biden’s campaign promise to allow youth to access to sports, locker rooms, based on chosen gender.

Police and mourners clashed in Buenos Aires on Thursday at the funeral of soccer star Diego Armando Maradona as thousands of people physically competed to pay their respects.

Sports fans have been left with nothing to shout about after organizers of next year’s postponed Tokyo Olympic Games said they may seek an order banning spectators from cheering as well shouting or talking loudly, to minimise the risk of coronavirus infections.

Senators Kelly Loeffler (R-GA), Mike Lee (R-UT), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), James Lankford (R-OK), and Tom Cotton (R-AR) recently introduced a bill that will protect female athletes of all ages from being forced to complete against biological men.

Connecticut could lose federal funding for its policy to allow biological males to compete against biological females in sports competitions.

Live Nation announced that it will be converting its concert venues into polling locations for the November election. The concert industry giant says it is “working with local officials to examine the feasibility of using more than 100 Live Nation venues” across the country.

The 1992 baseball movie “A League of Their Own” is getting a social justice reboot courtesy of Amazon, which said the new TV series will take a “deeper look at race and sexuality.”

Billionaire media mogul Oprah Winfrey declared in an episode of her eponymous series, “The Oprah Conversation” that “whiteness” and “white privilege” afford unspecified benefits to white people in the “caste system” of America.

A group of track and field athletes said Friday they had been oppressed and denied the “right” to public dissent for too long, demanding the International Olympic Committee (IOC) annul a rule that bars political protests at the Olympic Games.

President Donald Trump’s justice department is defending women’s sports from an Idaho lawsuit by transgender activists — and from the Supreme Court’s new pro-transgender rule.

Democrats are not happy about a Department of Education decision to withhold federal funding from Connecticut schools for violating Title IX’s discrimination statute by allowing biological men who claim to be transgender women, to compete agains biological women in high school and college sports.

Comedian Dave Chappelle addressed the police involved death of George Floyd in an emotional, near-30 minute Netflix special titled 8:46, ripping conservative commentator Candace Owens, Fox News host Laura Ingraham, and declaring, ironically, that America doesn’t need to hear celebrities speak out right now.

A recent survey conducted by ESPN shows that fans definitely want their sports back. Though, they’d prefer to watch on television, as opposed to going to the stadium.

Doctors, scientists and sports leaders are outlining the path back to playing fields for children in grassroots sports — an exercise that will help inform major organizations on how to get their industries up and running as well amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

President Trump minced no words on Wednesday, when he said he would like the country opened up “as soon as possible.”

Michelle Obama has described her When We All Vote initiative as a non-partisan effort to boost voter registration among all Americans. But the project, which is also aggressively pushing voting by mail, is backed by a slew of left-wing Hollywood and sports celebrities whose past public statements have been anything but non-partisan.

As the Chinese coronavirus continues to crush Americans and cause a massive health crisis, putting pressure on the country’s health care system, several Hollywood celebrities are donating large amounts of money to causes dedicated to helping those in need.

The head of one of Britain’s leading management bodies has urged businesses to crack down on men talking about sports such as soccer and cricket because it leads to the promotion of lad culture women feeling “left out.”

Companies need to moderate office chat to stop men talking about sports because such conservations exclude women and are a “gateway” to “laddish behaviour”, the head of a professional institution said on the BBC.

Ordinary Americans must not use biological science when deciding which athletes should be assigned to men’s or women’s athletic competitions, says a credentialed law professor at Georgetown University.

The New Hampshire House Education Committee will hold a public hearing on Tuesday on HB 1251, legislation to protect female athletic programs from men, or transgender women, who want to compete in girls’ and women’s sporting events.

They ran the next legs, taking the baton from Jackie Robinson as black players claimed their place in the game.

A federal court has partially reversed a lower court’s decision to prohibit prayers being broadcast on loudspeakers ahead of Christian schools’ sporting events, ruling that the ban violated free speech and free exercise rights.

Iranian women fans are free to enter a football stadium Thursday for the first time in decades, after FIFA threatened to suspend the Islamic republic over its controversial male-only policy.

A female high school athlete said on Tuesday that having to compete with men on the field crushes the dreams of women athletes.

“These gender extremists are insisting that we accept their feelings as science, yet they do not consider the feelings of others,” said Beth Stelzer, a female powerlifter and founder of Save Women’s Sports, Tuesday in front of the Supreme Court. Stelzer joined other women at an anti-transgenderism rally to speak out against transgender male’s participation in female sports.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Democrat presidential hopeful Andrew Yang will meet up for a charity basketball match on Friday in Houston.

Students in Montgomery County schools in Maryland will be subject to sweeping new policies that cater to transgenders and provide safe spaces.

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) – Many high-profile figures seeking to denounce the fires in the Amazon — from Madonna and Cristiano Ronaldo to Leonardo DiCaprio and Emmanuel Macron — have unwittingly ended up misleading millions on social media, either sharing photographs of the region that are years old or images taken in other parts of the world.

The lobbying push by high-tech investors to get more green cards for their army of Indian contract workers has triggered protests from many immigrant groups that will lose quick access to green cards.

The chairman of Bradford City Women’s football club tendered his “immediate resignation” after someone complained about Facebook posts in which he suggested the Islamic burka should be banned.

The NCAA is warning that California schools could be banned from the championships over a bill allowing compensation for student-athletes.

Multiple polls show many Americans are willing to support fellow Americans who say they are transgender — but the polls also show that generic support drops sharply whenever voters face specific trade-offs and dilemmas.

All but seven House Democrats voted Friday for a bill which ends legal and civic rights for women by allowing men who say they are transgender to freely use women’s legal rights, sports leagues, institutions, and private spaces.

The leading U.S. weightlifting association has formally excluded transgender males from its women’s division, marking another win for supporters of women’s athletics.