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Transgender footballer up for draft in the Australian Football League’s women’s division.

October 15, 2017 compassq Comments Off on Transgender footballer up for draft in the Australian Football League’s women’s division.

A first-ever ruling on whether transgender players can participate in the AFL Women’s competition will be made before the code’s draft announcement. The decision will come after 27-year-old Hannah Mouncey nominated herself for the draft. Mouncey, who underwent hormone treatment after the Rio Olympics, has been playing in Canberra’s Ainslie Tricolours in the local AFL Women’s competition, where she was deemed eligible to play.

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LGBT athletes come out in record numbers.

October 13, 2017 compassq Comments Off on LGBT athletes come out in record numbers.

While working on his master’s degree at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Joe Hladik researched the ways male athletes navigate masculinity. Hladik, an All-American swimmer at the University of Missouri from 2009-13, completed his master’s degree in May 2016, and in November 2016, he published the research results on his website.

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Sponsors line up behind this Olympic hopeful.

October 13, 2017 compassq Comments Off on Sponsors line up behind this Olympic hopeful.

Coming out as an openly gay Olympic freestyle skier has been great for Gus Kenworthy as a person, since he can be his true self. It’s also been great for Kenworthy in terms of visibility and endorsements, as Sports Business Journal found.