The Discriminatory Costs of Preserving Women’s Only Sports

Separate categories for men and women in sports will become a relic of the early 21st century. Here is why we will go backwards to go forwards: In much of the world, we have become accustomed to having gender segregated categories for competition in sports. But the past 50 years mark a bubble which is popping as we speak. The past half century will be looked back on as the golden era of women's sport, where segregated categories gave women a chance to compete on a playing field that excludes men, transgender people and intersex people.