Fair Game
Trans Athletes and the Future of Sports
“If you care about fairness, equity, and human rights, you need to read this.”
-Megan Rapinoe
World Cup champion, New York Times bestselling author, and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient
Fair Game offers an insightful, timely examination of the ongoing battle for equality in athletics. As LGBTQ athletes break barriers in the Olympics, transgender athletes still face harsh restrictions in many areas. With twenty-four states passing anti-trans sports legislation in the last two years, nearly half of Americans live under laws that restrict or ban transgender individuals from participating in sports. Fair Game explores why taking the next step and increasing the acceptance of trans athletes is important not only for everyone with an Olympic dream but also everyone whose kids just want to join the town soccer league.
The authors (L-R): Chris Mosier, Ellie Roscher and Dr. Anna Baeth
Fair Game explores the role of sports in the lives of transgender youth and adults, offering a comprehensive, nuanced, and multivoiced picture of the transgender athletic experience. Through a woven collection of the narratives from a marginalized population, Fair Game examines the patterns of fear and gender stereotypes that undergird anti-trans legislation and offers helpful historical and political context about sex segregation in sports and how bodies (including trans bodies) work in sports.
Host a Book Club or Discussion Group
Use the resources below to spark discussion, reflect on personal experiences, and explore the myths and realities surrounding transgender athletes in sports.
“So much of the vitriol directed at transgender athletes is based on ignorance or disinformation. Fair Game dispels the false narratives with data and facts. It’s an important effort, and one that’s long overdue.”
Ways to Help
Do you believe in the power of sports, and believe in a sports culture where all people can have access to play?
We invite you to join the ongoing work of infusing more compassion and accurate data into the conversation around trans athlete inclusion. Financial support is one tangible way you can help.
By donating, you increase Baeth, Roscher, and Mosier’s ability to educate and advocate for trans athletes, while scaling and swelling the reach of conversations and action around FAIR GAME.
With your funding, we can keep our events affordable and free, so cost isn’t a barrier to anyone. We can travel to strategic in-person events, and hire talented people who want to offer quality professional support to amplify the work.
Become a City Lead
Would you be willing to be a city lead, acting as a point person to activate your community?
This role entails:
Identifying strategic locations for book events in your city. This could include:
Women’s sports bars
Independent bookstores
Libraries
Academic classrooms - gender studies, sports sciences, writing etc
Women’s sports teams and leagues
Ideas you have from the ground
Strategizing the most strategic time to rally a series of events around that could maximize coordination and engagement.
Be the point person for communication on the ground, connecting the authors to the contacts at the above locations
Activating your wider network to market and promote for the local events
If possible, identify a donor or group of donors willing to contribute to defray the cost of travel and lodging for the authors.
The launch event of Fair Game, held on January 30, 2026 at Open Book, Minneapolis, MN
Research & Resources
Transgender Women Athletes and Elite Sport: A Scientific Review, Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport, 2022.
Transgender Women Athletes and Elite Sport: A Scientific Review is an in-depth review of scientific literature on transgender athlete participation in competitive sport.
This report was commissioned with a mandate to review the scientific and grey literature regarding trans women athletes’ participation in elite or otherwise high-performance sport (herein shortened to ‘elite sport’), with a special focus on the state of scientific literature around the science of testosterone and whether there is evidence that past exposure to amounts of testosterone considered by the IOC and IAAF to be within the ‘normal male range’ confer athletic advantage to trans women elite athletes.