A Letter From the Director
Published: Friday, February 01, 2008
Dear It Takes A Team! Supporter:
It's been nearly three years since I became director of It Takes A Team! in February 2005, and as we approach our three-year anniversary it seems like a great time to reflect on our accomplishments. I want you, our supporters, to know what we've been doing and to share in our pride in the It Takes A Team! accomplishments. I also want to challenge you to become directly involved with It Takes A Team!Challenge for athletic supporters: Help It Takes A Team! raise $5,000 in the next two months so together we can get the ...
Women's Sports Foundation Applauds Decision to Award $5.8 Million to Female Coach for Title IX Retaliation
Published: Thursday, July 12, 2007
On Monday, July 9, the Superior Court of California, County of Fresno Central Division, awarded former volleyball coach Linda L. Vivas $5,852,069 in damages in her lawsuit against California State University at Fresno (CSU-Fresno). In what is believed to be the largest judgment ever awarded to a coach in a Title IX case, the jury found that Vivas was fired in retaliation for her speaking out on behalf of her students and program that CSU-Fresno was in violation of Title IX, the federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in educational programs and activities offered by institutions that are recipients of federal ...
Baby Makes 3 For Coach and Partner
Published: Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Reprinted Courtesy of OutSports.com
Coach's False Statements Causing Big Problems
Published: Monday, October 17, 2005
NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS CALLS ON PENN STATE TO RETRACT FALSE STATEMENTS OR FACE LITIGATION
(PHILADELPHIA, PA) – The National Center for Lesbian Rights sent a letter to Penn State today demanding that the University publicly retract the retaliatory statement issued last Friday October 14, 2005 by Penn State women's basketball coach Rene Portland. “It is shocking that an institution of Penn State's caliber would respond to the serious legal issues raised by Ms. Harris not by investigating her claims, but rather by launching a malicious and retaliatory public campaign to falsely smear the reputation of a dedicated young athlete ...
Participation of Transsexual Athletes in Women's Sports
Published: Wednesday, June 08, 2005
The Women's Sports Foundation supports the position of the International Olympic Committee on the participation of transsexual athletes in elite level sport. In May of 2004, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) set strict requirements for the participation of athletes who have undergone sex reassignment (male to female or female to male). The IOC announced that such “transsexual” athletes, defined as athletes who have undergone sex reassignment surgery and hormonal therapy would be allowed to compete in the Olympic Games under the following conditions:1. Any “individuals undergoing sex reassignment of male to female before puberty should be regarded as girls and women” ...
International Gay & Lesbian Athletics Conference: Looking Past the Labels
Published: Friday, November 05, 2004
The International Gay & Lesbian Athletics Conference sheds light on significant issues and concerns facing gay athletes
Lesbian Couple Fights Playing-Time Discrimination by their Country Club
Published: Monday, July 28, 2003
Read a report about another private golf club and the discrimination a same- sex couple has gone through just simply by wanting to join. ...
It Takes A Team: Eliminating Homophobia in Sports
Published: Thursday, October 31, 2002
The Foundation's innovative program designed to eliminate homophobia in sports
Gender Testing - Gender Verification at Elite Sports Competitions: The Foundation Position
Published: Monday, August 14, 2000
Background Chapter 3 of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Medical Code mandates that all female competitors shall be subject to gender verification. Historically, the IOC has mandated gender verification for female athletes since the mid-1960s. In 1990, the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF), the international governance organization for track and field, called for the abandonment of gender verification and convened a Working Group of international experts, including ethicists, sports governors, physicians, and women athletes in support of this position. The Working Group concluded that:
women with birth defects of the sex chromosomes did not possess an unfair advantage and should ...
Playing in the Closet: Homophobia in Sports
Both players and coaches have been victims of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation -- an issue that not only affects the LGBT community, but all female athletes.
Gender Verification No More?
While there has been abundant publicity regarding the testing of Olympic athletes for use of pr