Educators have long recognized the physical,
psychological, social, and educational benefits that sports
provide to students. Educational institutions have,
accordingly, incorporated both curricular and extracurricular
athletics since the nineteenth century.1 Initially the domain
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to normalize the expectation that girls deserve equal access to
the benefits of sport. Yet today, the barriers to athletic
participation that exclude the increasingly visible population
of transgender students are largely ignored. With a few
notable exceptions, most governing bodies of scholastic and
collegiate sports have yet to meaningfully consider how to