In May 2023, Newsweek interviewed researcher and medical physicist Joanna Harper, and asked her to estimate the number of transgender athletes competing in US sports.
âWhile we donât know the exact number of trans women competing in NCAA sports, I would be very surprised if there were more than 100 of them in the womenâs category,â Harper replied.
That number is even smaller when it comes to middle school and high school athletes. Newsweek also spoke to Gillian Branstetter, a spokesperson for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), who told Newsweek that Save Womenâs Sports, a leading voice in the bid to ban transgender athletes from competing in girlsâ sports, identified only five transgender athletes competing on girlsâ teams in school sports for grades K through 12.
Yes, thatâs right. Not 5000, not 500, not even 50 â just five trans student-athletes. All of this legislation, work, lobbying and anger â is aimed at preventing a tiny handful of young people from playing school sports.
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Truss, who announced her resignation as prime minister after just 44 days in office in 2022, addressed an audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), at the National Harbor, in Maryland, on Wednesday (21 February).
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Truss, who earlier this week âtook delightâ in revealing the cover for the US version of her book, Ten Years to Save the West, told the audience that she ran for Number 10 because âBritain wasnât growingâ and the âstate wasnât deliveringâ.
She went on to say: âI wanted to cut taxes, reduce the administrative state, take back control as people talked about in the Brexit referendum. What I did face was a huge establishment backlash and a lot of it actually came from the state itself.
âPeople are joining the civil service who are essentially activists,â she then claimed. âThey might be trans activists, they might be environmental extremists but they are now having a voice within the civil service in a way I donât think was true 30 or 40 years ago.