Transgender Eligibility

Author, Significant Speeches & Media

Champion Women’s Work Preserving Women’s Sports for Women

Significant Speeches and Podcasts

Nancy Hogshead, a former Olympic gold medalist in swimming, said she hopes other sports enact restrictions.” 2023

Media for the past few years

“I’m exhausted. I could keep going, but this article repetitively downplays real biological sex differences that are determinative in sport, as a way to address sexism, misogyny and male dominance. Allowing men in women’s sports & spaces doesn’t do this for women… it only makes our plight worse.”; 2024

“Nancy Hogshead-Makar, a U.S. Olympic gold medalist in swimming and CEO of the advocacy organization Champion Women, started an email campaign to urge supporters to email a form letter to the Board of Governors.”; 2024

“Among the rally’s participants were the Independent Women's Forum, swimmers Marshi Smith and Kylee Allons, three-time Olympic gold medalist swimmer Nancy Hogshead-Makar, and former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines.” 2024

“We call on the NCAA to make sure women's sports stays for women.””; 2024

“Whenever swimmers expressed any discomfort or had any second thoughts or wanted to discuss it with Penn leaders or their coaches, they were immediately put on hold. There is no space for them to say anything. They've been told that if they speak out they'll never get a job again, that corporate America will Google their name and say, ‘Transphobe, we don't want that.’ They have been told that they cannot do anything. Olympic swimmer and attorney Nancy Hogshead-Makar said:” 2024

“I will tell you, Nancy has become a dear friend, and she’s been an advocate for Title IX for women. She was a former world record holder for swimming. She’s been incredible. You’re exactly right: Me and her probably don’t agree on a whole lot of other things, but I’ll tell you what, she is a dear friend and someone I very much look up to.”; 2023

“When asked if a man in Sharron Davies's position would have been an Olympic gold medallist by now, Nancy Hogshead is unequivocal.” 2023

“Nancy Hogshead-Makar, a triple gold medalist in swimming at 1984 Angeles Olympic Games stated, “Other than the constitutional right to vote, possibly no other piece of legislation has had a greater effect on women’s lives than Title IX.” 2023

“One Olympic gold medalist who supports a trans ban and has written upon it extensively is the swimmer Nancy Hogshead-Makar, who founded the organization Champion Women. As Dr. Johanna Mellis, cohost of the End of Sports Pod, tweeted to me (and I reprint with permission): “Enraging how several cishet [cisgender, heterosexual] white women like NHM [Nancy Hogshead–Makar] who ostensibly vote Dem and believe in abortion rights are trans panic-ers and boosting their platform off such bigotry.”; 2023

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