This book addresses one of the most controversial and polarizing topics of recent years: transgender girls' inclusion in girls' sports. The book explores legal precedent and medical science and explains why neither can answer the question of how eligibility rules should be drawn for girls' sports. The decision is, at core, a political one necessarily reflecting social values and priorities. The book examines positions from the right and left that have dominated the public debate revealing their ideological commitments and logical weak points. With the goal of helping readers clarify their own positions, rather than advocacy, the book provides a framework for thinking about this issue that focuses on the discrete benefits organized sports provides to participants and society more broadly and considers how such benefits can be most fairly and justly allocated to girls and boys – both transgender and cisgender.

‘How can all children, including transgender children, fairly get to participate in sports? Yuracko's wonderfully methodical analysis calls out callousness and confusion on both left and right. She brings rare clarity and wisdom to a fraught political issue.’

Andrew Koppelman - John Paul Stevens Professor of Law, Northwestern University and author of Burning Down the House: How Libertarian Philosophy Was Corrupted by Delusion and Greed (2022)