The Gender Binary Is Outdated: On Sports, Jobs and Pronouns [Live Recording]
We talk about the issues of a changing world — and also come up with solutions to make the world more open and inclusive. Our weekly Call with the Publisher, May 21, 2021.
By Lisa Hickey
For today, I want to talk big picture about the “gender binary”. And as I talk, I am going to make some very specific points — but I am going also ask a lot of questions. And I am really interested in your answers to these questions. I feel like “the world is changing faster than most people can process that change.” And lately that includes me! I feel like the world is changing so quickly it’s hard to process that change. And one of the things I absolutely love about these calls is that your insights help me better understand the ways the world is changing. Every single time.
Anyway, I want to pick up with something we started discussing at the end of one of the calls this week.
We were talking about whether transgender people allowed to play sports. There has been a lot in the news about that lately.
But Thaddeus said something that really stuck with me and that was — maybe sports just have to be re-imagined. (Ok…
