#DeGenderSports: Kay | Can't we just dump this, just not care about gender in sports?

My hope for the future of sport is that we just stopped caring about gender. Apart from some very minor caveats around t...

#DeGenderSports: Kayaking’s often been for white men, inaccessible to women, people of color

Ultimately, my goal with everything I'm doing in kayaking is to keep growing the sport, because I think it's an amazing ...

#DeGenderSports: | Horribly homophobic language in playgrounds at the height of the AIDS crisis

I've been careful in how I think about my transness, and coming out and coming to terms with that. Because it's far too ...

#DeGenderSports: Kay | It was emotionally hard coming off that river that day

#DeGenderSports: Kay | It was emotionally hard coming off that river that day

The challenge I'm facing righ...

#DeGenderSports | I've always been conscious of how we approach people's feelings in water

I’ve always rejected the gendered notions and bro-culture around kayaking. It isn’t just a men-only sport – a lot ...

#DeGenderSports | Kayaking is a space that I've never associated with gender at all

I'm not super competitive and I hate competitive situations. That isn't to say I don't occasionally race.

I...

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From legislative attacks preventing transgender youth from participating in sport to news outlets sensationalizing trailblazers – transgender, nonbinary, and intersex athletes are repetitively scrutinized by mainstream narratives that paint bodies as controversies.

To challenge this ongoing legacy of historic misrepresentation, #DeGenderSports will center firsthand narratives by about 50 transgender, nonbinary and queer athletes in an effort to reclaim the space currently dominated by misinformed narratives.

The aim is to dismantle mainstream biases through a repository of over 200 #DeGenderSports stories by athletes who are often stereotyped in journalism, and invisibilized by the gatekeeping of visibility dictated by social media algorithms.

I’m grateful to every athlete who will be taking the time to express how sports shapes the way they navigate their lives within and beyond the gender essentialist restrictions repeatedly imposed on their identities.

I hope you will #PlayYourPart in celebrating multitudes, disrupting singular narratives, and co-creating a world where everyone can play in a way that feels comfortable to them.