Amid raging national upheaval over racial injustice this summer, college football players from across the Pac-12 Conference started a protest of their own.

A federal court in Idaho may have signaled the beginning of the end for girls’ and women’s sports.

Judge David C. Nye handed transgender athletes a key victory on Aug. 17 in the fight over whether college and high-school sports’ governing bodies must let biological males compete in women’s athletic events: The Trump appointee issued a preliminary injunction blocking Idaho’s Fairness in Women’s Sports Act (FWSA), a law prohibiting males from competing as “females” in high-school and college sports within the state.

When Washington, D.C.’s NFL team announced in July it was dropping its controversial “Redskins” moniker, media and activists hailed the move as a long time coming.

Nestled between farmland, a thriving shopping and restaurant complex that sprang up adjacently, and a busy interstate, a minor league ballpark sits empty and forlorn.

For much of my adult life, I’ve covered high school and college sports for various publications, including WORLD. For most of that time, I had no question whether the athletes involved were male or female.

As far as I’m concerned, I still don’t.

Still, it’s become quite apparent that I’m navigating a rapidly changing sports landscape.

I write a weekly sports column for a California newspaper. The column—which has been on hiatus since COVID-19 shut down the sports world—is a roundup of achievements by local athletes competing at the college level.

Activists appear to have two approaches to controlling the narrative concerning transgender athletes’ successes in women’s sports: Attack the critics, or keep things hush-hush.

Neither has proven particularly effective at quelling a controversy that needn’t exist, isn’t going away, and really has only one solution.

The NCAA crowned its first biologically male women’s track and field champion in late May. If Democrats in Congress have their way, it will become a far more frequent occurrence.

CeCe (formerly Craig) Telfer of New Hampshire’s Franklin Pierce University won the 400-meter hurdles at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track and Field Championships on May 25 in Kingsville, Texas. Telfer’s time of 57.53 seconds was more than a full second faster than that of his nearest competitor.