Excluding Trans Women From Women’s Sports is Transphobic

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Written By Sonny Oram

Yeah, I said it. If you believe that trans women don’t belong in women’s sports, you are transphobic, full stop.

Women’s sports are for all women:

  • Short women

  • Tall women

  • BIPOC women

  • White women

  • Cis women

  • Trans women

Everyone has their own advantages and disadvantages. Excluding trans women because of perceived advantages over cisgender athletes is just targeting them because they are trans.

Can you imagine if women over 6 feet weren’t allowed to play basketball because it was “unfair”? Should children of wealthy parents be excluded because they got access to the best coaches? What about athletes who hit puberty early and built muscle faster than their peers?

I’m so tired of this debate and people obsessing over testosterone levels.

Targeting trans people by denying our access to public life whether through employment, bathroom access, or sports, is dehumanizing, degrading, and evil.

If you don’t want to play sports with a trans person then go start your own league.

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Sonny Oram

Sonny Oram is the founder of Qwear and a leading voice in the queer fashion movement. For over a decade, he has been documenting, writing about, and experimenting with queer fashion, amplifying the voices and stories of LGBTQIA+ individuals. His expertise has been featured in major media outlets like HuffPost, BuzzFeed, Design*Sponge, and QTYPE Magazine, and he spoke at South by Southwest for the first official queer fashion panel in 2016.

Through Qwear, Sonny has launched powerful campaigns, including the award-winning #ThisIsWhatAsexualLooksLike with Yasmin Benoit, and continues to create spaces for underrepresented communities to be seen. He also utilizes search engine optimization (SEO) techniques to bring more diversity to online search results, ensuring that terms like “androgynous style,” “bisexual style,” and “asexual” reflect a broader range of experiences.

Sonny is also the author of the foreword for “Queer and Trans Fashion Brands: Resistance and Revolution in the 21st Century” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025).

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