{"id":268497,"date":"2024-10-17T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T13:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/?p=268497"},"modified":"2025-07-23T15:47:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T19:47:39","slug":"xtra-explains-trans-girls-and-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/video\/xtra-explains-trans-girls-and-sports-268497","title":{"rendered":"Xtra Explains: Trans girls and sports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"is-style-article-kik\">Debunking some of the biggest myths around trans girls and fairness in sports<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Xtra Explains: Trans girls and sports | Xtra Magazine\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g_OrMCHTCG0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Are trans women really a threat to fairness in women\u2019s sports? Where does the science stand on so-called \u201cbiological advantages\u201d? And have trans women ever actually dominated sports in the way right-wing media seem to think they do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s a lot of misinformation and outright fake news online about trans women and sports, and it\u2019s influencing very real policy in places like Alberta right now. As part of our series <em><a href=\"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/inside-xtra\/introducing-xtra-explains-trans-youth-268436\">Xtra Explains: Trans Youth<\/a><\/em>, senior editor Mel Woods breaks down everything you need to know about trans girls and sports.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-end\">Check out other explainers on topics like surgery, puberty blockers and social contagion theory on our <a href=\"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/series\/xtra-explains\">website,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@XtraMagazine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube channel<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@xtramagazine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TikTok<\/a>. And check out the full list of sources cited in <em>Xtra Explains<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/inside-xtra\/xtra-explains-trans-youth-fact-check-268451\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debunking some of the biggest myths around trans girls and fairness in sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1177,"featured_media":268486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"editorial_slug":"2907","_editorial_slug":"2907","exclude_from_latest_block":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,4,2],"contributors":[1933],"topic":[78,141,142],"clients":[],"series":[2907],"timeliness":[58],"editorial_format":[1941,2088],"type-of-work":[2584],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268497"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268541,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268497\/revisions\/268541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268497"},{"taxonomy":"contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributors?post=268497"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=268497"},{"taxonomy":"clients","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/clients?post=268497"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=268497"},{"taxonomy":"timeliness","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/timeliness?post=268497"},{"taxonomy":"editorial_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/editorial_format?post=268497"},{"taxonomy":"type-of-work","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/type-of-work?post=268497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}