Transgender Athletes

• Hockey, table tennis to go ahead in Alberta after figure skating opts out over trans law

  Hockey Canada and Table Tennis Canada say their events in Alberta will go ahead despite the province's law banning transgender athletes from female amateur sports.

  Politics

  Dec 18, 2025
  
• Skate Canada to stop hosting events in Alberta due to sports gender law

  Skate Canada says it is unable to host events in Alberta while maintaining its standards for safety and inclusivity.

  Canada

  Dec 16, 2025
  
• Advertisement
• Alberta’s ‘Fairness and Safety in Sport Act’ criticized as misogynistic, transphobic

  Opponents of the Alberta government's new Fairness and Safety in Sport Act, which came into effect at the start of the new school year, call it 'misogynistic and transphobic.'

  Education

  Sep 5, 2025
• Advertisement
• U.S. Olympic, Paralympic officials to comply with Trump ban on trans women

  Transgender women athletes have been barred from competing in women's sports by the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic committee, ahead of the Los Angeles Summer Games in 2028.

  U.S. News

  Jul 23, 2025
• Maine ordered to ban transgender athletes in escalation of Trump fight

  The U.S. Education Department said an investigation concluded Maine violated the Title IX antidiscrimination law by allowing transgender girls to compete on girls' sports teams.

  U.S. News

  Mar 19, 2025
• B.C. basketball provincials moved from Abbotsford college following investigation

  B.C.'s basketball provincials are without a home following an investigation into allegations of harassment against a transgender athlete aimed at the original host school.

  Sports

  Feb 9, 2025
• Trump bans transgender athletes from women’s and girls’ sports

  United States President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday intended to ban transgender athletes from participating in girls' and women’s sports.

  U.S. News

  Feb 6, 2025
• Transgender skier worries Alberta bill would ban her from competing

  Alberta's United Conservative Party government introduced last week the Fairness and Safety in Sport Act. It has passed first reading in the legislature.

  Politics

  Nov 8, 2024
• Advertisement
• Alberta policy on trans athletes spurs discussion among people with stake in competitive sports

  Smith suggested transgender athletes can have advantages over their cisgender competitors.

  Canada

  Feb 2, 2024
• Advertisement
• Female transgender athletes banned from women’s events by world cycling’s governing body

  The UCI's decision came after American rider Austin Killips became the first openly transgender woman to win an official cycling event in May.

  Sports

  Jul 14, 2023