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Title IX @50: Who Gets to Play? Trans Youth in Sports

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4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

For all the strides Title IX helped women make in sports, it’s never been a more contentious time for who gets to compete as a woman. In Part 4 of the documentary “37 Words,” filmmaker Clare Marash met transgender kids whose right to participate in society as themselves is in question by dozens of state legislatures — on the field and in life. And in our final episode to mark 50 years since Title IX became law, host Allison Glock and Clare Marash look at the future of civil rights around education and sports through families fighting for their kids to play. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

In our final episode to mark 50 years since Title IX became law, we look at the future

0:06.7

of civil rights around education and sports through families fighting for their kids'

0:11.1

right to play.

0:13.7

It's Friday, June 24th.

0:18.3

For all the strides Title IX is brought for women in sports, a new battle has sprung

0:21.9

up around who was allowed to compete.

0:24.5

I'm Allison Glock, Executive Producer of W Studios.

0:29.8

In part four of the documentary 37 words, filmmaker Claire Marish met several trans girls

0:35.5

who long to play sports but face firm resistance from school districts and state laws designed

0:41.1

to exclude them.

0:42.8

As they're very right, not just to play, but to define their personhood is under attack.

0:48.1

Claire reveals on film what happens when legislation limits what girlhood is, on the field, and

0:54.0

off.

0:59.6

Good afternoon, Claire.

1:00.6

Hi.

1:01.6

Thank you for joining us for our fourth and final chat about 37 words and the last episode

1:09.2

in the four part series.

1:11.4

Tell me about your participation in this particular episode.

1:15.4

Yeah, my biggest and most active piece was this story of what is happening for trans kids

1:23.9

around the country in this kind of new frontier of Title IX law is in the last few years,

1:30.6

there have been kind of a rash of bills at the state level that are requiring kids to participate

1:39.1

in sports solely based on the gender assigned at birth.

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