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Australian Football Transgender Ban Is Discriminatory

By Ronald Katz (October 20, 2017, 12:46 PM EDT) -- On Oct. 16, 2017, transgender female Hannah Mouncey was blocked from playing in the women's Australian Football League. Initially the reason given by the AFL adjudicating panel was so vague — "the stage of maturity of the AFLW competition, its current player cohort and Mouncey's individual circumstances" — that there was a later clarification: The basis of the decision was Mouncey's body size and bulk, 6 feet 2 inches tall and 220 pounds. Because this decision was not evidence-based, it is discriminatory against transgender athletes and based on sexual stereotyping. This is a serious civil rights problem, not only in Australia but in the U.S. and in international sporting competitions....

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