Debate Over Transgender Athletes in Women's Sports Intensifies

Critics Accuse National Women's Law Center Head of Selling Out Women, AOC Links Issue to Racism Against Black Women

Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women's Law Center, has been criticized for her remarks during a congressional hearing on 'the Importance of Protecting Female Athletics and Title IX', where she suggested that women need to 'learn to lose gracefully' to transvestites in sports.
Graves argued that keeping boys out of girls' school sports constitutes sex discrimination and that transvestites and other reality-averse students 'must be able to fully access education as their full selves; Title IX guarantees no less.'
Republican lawmakers and other feminists have blasted Graves for her remarks, accusing her of using her platform to 'sell out all the future generations of women.'
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez questioned Graves during the hearing and claimed that preventing boys from competing in girls' scholastic athletics would not only be transphobic, but racist against black women.
Ocasio-Cortez and Graves linked the issue of trans women in sports to racial bias in the medical field, arguing that black women and girls would be further subject to marginalization.