'Get a grip': Ballon D'Or winner Megan Rapinoe criticises exclusion of trans athletes

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'Get a grip': Ballon D'Or winner Megan Rapinoe criticises exclusion of trans athletes
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Ballon D'Or winner Megan Rapinoe's comments come as FINA, world swimming's governing body, voted to further restrict trans women's participation in elite competitions.

at NWSL club OL Reign, has used her high-profile platform to advocate for social causes for several years.

Megan Rapinoe's club team-mate, Quinn , who won an Olympic gold medal with Canada in Tokyo, came out as non-binary and trans in 2020. several Republican-controlled states banning trans people from all sport, despite not being able to provide evidence to support itlaws requiring school-aged girls "suspected" of being trans to receive physical genital examinations to "prove" their gender presentation matches their biological sex characteristics.

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