Why How We Talk About Gender Matters
1A
NPR
4.3 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Now, he's an advocate for transgender inclusion. His new book is called "He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters."
In the years since Schuyler raced as a member of the Harvard men's swim team, the battle over transgender inclusion in sports has become more contentious.
Since 2020, 18 states have passed laws restricting participation in sports for trans women and girls and five other states passed laws applying to all trans athletes, according to an ESPN analysis.
We discuss why the way we talk about gender matters.
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| 0:00.0 | A few things seem to get people as |
| 0:10.0 | well up these days is talking |
| 0:12.0 | about transgender kids competing |
| 0:14.0 | in sports. Skylar Baylor knows |
| 0:16.0 | that experience all too well. |
| 0:18.0 | He was the first openly transgender |
| 0:20.0 | athlete to compete on a division |
| 0:22.0 | one NCAA men sports team. |
| 0:24.0 | Next up is a story that's been |
| 0:26.0 | generating headlines for weeks from |
| 0:28.0 | Crimson to the likes of time, |
| 0:30.0 | the Washington Post, the New York |
| 0:32.0 | Times, people, cosmopolitan, sports |
| 0:34.0 | illustrated, and other news outlets |
| 0:36.0 | across the globe. |
| 0:38.0 | It's the story of Skylar Baylor, |
| 0:40.0 | the first openly transgender swimmer |
| 0:42.0 | in NCAA division one history. |
| 0:44.0 | Recruited to the women's team, |
| 0:46.0 | he'll be swimming with the men when he enters |
| 0:48.0 | this fall, thanks a part to two coaches |
| 0:50.0 | who gave him the option of swimming |
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