Author, Significant Speeches & Media

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

• Author, Why Lia Thomas and Transgender Athletes Must Not Compete Against Biological Females, 2022
• Author, “It was not fair when I raced against doped-up East Germans and it is not fair for women to compete against transgender swimmer Lia Thomas; here's why, writes Olympic champion Nancy Hogshead-Makar,” 2021
• Co-Author, “It's not wrong to restrict transgender athletes. But based on evidence and ethics,” Opinion: Arizona's legislation to support a ban of transgender women and girls from competition is legally and scientifically flawed. 2020
• Co-Author, Letter to Governor of Idaho via Brian Wonderlich, General Counsel, Veto HB 500, “Fairness in Women’s Sports Act”, 2020
• Co-Author: Women’s Sports Foundation Position paper, “Issues Related to Girls and Boys Competing With and Against Each Other in Sports and Physical Activity Settings” 

Significant Speeches and Podcasts

• Clearinghouse on Women’s Issues (“CWI”): Dr. Ross Tucker, PhD (South Africa) – PPT Presentation to CWI Transgender Sport, 2022
• Nancy Hogshead and Donna Lopiano on legal and ethical issues regarding men who identify as transgender onto women’s teams, 2022
• International Sports Press Association, AIPS: “Navratilova and Women’s Sports Policy Working Group Offer Scientific Insights into Transgender Debate,” 2021 
• Speaker, International Triathlon re; Policies for Women’s Category Eligibility, 2024
• Podcast, League of Fans’ Sports Forum, 50th Anniversary of Title IX and the Lia Thomas Controversy with Nancy Hogshead-Makar, 2022
• Dr. Michael Joyner of Mayo Clinic speaks with Women’s Sports Foundation Presidents about male & female physiology. With Nancy Hogshead and Donna Lopiano, 2022
• ICONS Holds International Women’s Sports Summit 2023, 2023
• Featured Speaker, National Organization for Women’s (NOW) New York Annual State Conference 2022, Progress 2023: The Personal Is Political, 2022
• Podcast, The Law & Education, Episode 39: Gender and Trans Equity in Sports with Nancy Hogshead-Makar, 2021
• Speaker, The Federalist Society, Panel 1: Intersection of the Law & the LGBTQ Community; 2022
• Podcast, Sports Philanthropy Network, S5:EP11--Nancy Hogshead-Makar, CEO of Champion Women, 2022
• Michael Smerconish, CNN, Are inclusion and fairness both possible with trans athletes?, 2022
• Podcast, Courtney Bullard, The Law and Education Podcast - ICS Lawyer,  Episode 43: Gender Equity in Athletics and Transgender Participation in Sports with Nancy Hogshead-Makar (Part 2); 2022
• Podcast, Dom Giordano Program, Olympic Champion Nancy Hogshead-Makar on UPenn Transgendered Swimming Controversy, 2022
• Podcast, Courtney Bullard, The Law and Education Podcast - ICS Lawyer,  Episode 42: Gender Equity in Athletics and Transgender Participation in Sports with Nancy Hogshead-Makar (Part 1); 2022
• Podcast, The Megyn Kelly Show, COVID Truth and Propaganda, and a Trans Swimmer Update, 2022
• Podcast, Player FM, Nancy Hogshead-Makar, trans inclusion in sports and the Women's Sports Policy Working Group - Five Rings to Rule Them All, 2021
• Podcast, Royal Roads University and Olympian Jennifer Walinga, Women, Leadership and Sports; a Conversation with Nancy Hogshead-Makar, 2020
• Podcast, National Sports Media Association, 2020
• Tom McManus, “The Horse’s Mouth” Nancy Hogshead
• Forbes, Swimming Announces ‘Open’ Category For Transgender Athletes—Here Are The Other Major Sports With Restrictions Or Bans,

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

• Time For IOC To Renew Its Vows With Sex-Based Sport & End Sorority Struggle For Fair Play, Nancy Hogshead-Makar To Trans Champion Lia Thomas: ‘Sports Not Based On Identity But Biology… Advantages Of Male Puberty Cannot Be Rolled Back – It Isn’t Fair”; 2023

Media for the past few years

• Dr Phil – “Nancy Hogshead Makes The Case for the Female Sports Category,” 2022.
• Olympian Nancy Hogshead-Makar joined the Dr. Phil show to advocate for #femaleathletes and for fairness and equal opportunity for women.; 2023
  
• Navratilova, Hogshead-Makar Slam ‘Ignorant’ Notion That Thomas’ Male Body ‘Not The Problem’,

“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

•  The Washington Post, Pressure Mounts On NCAA To Clarify Stance On Transgender Athletes,

“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

• College Transgender Sports Ban Sparks Outrage, 2024
• World News Group, Female Athletes Sue NCAA For Forcing Them To Compete With Men, 2024
•  This week in Jacksonville: Nancy Hogshead, advocates for women only sports, 2024
•  Lia Thomas Seeks To Up-End Fair Play Rules With Trans Challenge To World Aquatics At CAS, 2024
•  Diverse Education, Former Athletes and Coaches Rally Against Trans Inclusion in Women's Sports During Annual NCAA Convention,

“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

•  Protesters Rally Against Transgender Athletes Outside NCAA Convention In Phoenix,

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

•  Anti-Semitism controversy on college campuses is a direct result of identity politics – Op Ed,

“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

• Support Grows for Suit Against Connecticut’s Policy Allowing Transgender Athletes To Compete in Women’s Sports, 2023
•  The Minnesota Republic, We Need Allies Across the Political Spectrum: Riley Gaines,

“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

• Daily Mail, IOC would have already helped swimmers robbed of medals by doping cheats if they were men, claims USA pool legend Nancy Hogshead - as she savages the body for being 'chicken’,

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

•  Third category of sports for transgender athletes is the only way to create fairness,

“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

• Dave Zirin, The Nation, Banning Trans Athletes Is Just the Beginning,

“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

• 2013 – 2017: Featured in We Are Straight Allies Campaign, in support of a human rights ordinance for the LGBT community
• CBS News, Diving Into The Debate Over Trans Athletes. 2022
• Jacksonville Olympian Fighting $250 Million Lawsuit Filed By Coach She Helped Get Banned, 2022
• Nancy Hogshead-Makar Explains Problems with Lia Thomas Situation Dr. Ross Tucker, Biological Perspectives on Transgender Athletes in Sport, 2022

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