The Challenges Transgender Athletes Face Off the Field
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For the most part, there are no overarching rules or legal precedents governing whether transgender athletes can compete across various sports in their true gender, as opposed to the one they were assigned at birth. (An exception is the U.S. National College Athletic Association, which does have a complete policy concerning transgender athletes.) It may be one of the most contentious conflicts in sports, starting at school age and stretching up through the most prestigious echelons of competition, including the Olympics.