In this panel we will be examining issues related to ongoing conversations regarding transgender athlete experience in sport, efforts to make sport a more inclusive space for transgender athletes, and increasing efforts on the part of state entities to regulate and control how, when, and under what circumstances transgender athletes compete in sport.
Moderator: Ellen J. Staurowsky, Ed.D., Professor, Sports Media, Ithaca College (IC ’78)
Opening Remarks: Luca Maurer, Interim Executive Director, Student Equity and Belonging, and Director, Center for LGBT Education, Outreach & Service
Panelists:
August Donato ’25, Men’s Rugby Team
Vikki Krane, Ph.D., (they/them), Professor, Human Movement, Sport, and Leisure Studies, Bowling Green State University and editor, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Sport: Queer Inquiries
Ryan Socolow, Senior Coordinator of Data & Trans Inclusion Research, Athlete Ally