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1 day ago | outsports.com | Jay Robinson |Karleigh Webb |Ken Schultz |Cyd Zeigler

There’s this thing that happens when you’re transgender. You’re just trying to live your life — running a race, going to work, shopping for groceries — and someone hits you with a question, an assumption, or a comment that makes you feel like a novelty instead of a person. It’s exhausting. And it happens more often than you’d think. As a trans man, I’ve had people question whether I’m “really” a man because I haven’t had bottom surgery yet.

2 days ago | outsports.com | Ken Schultz |Cyd Zeigler |Jim Buzinski |Karleigh Webb

Shohei Ohtani isn’t the only Japanese trailblazer changing the way North Americans think about baseball in 2025. On Sunday, superstar pitcher Ayami Sato made her debut for the Toronto Maple Leafs in Canada’s Intercounty Baseball League. In doing so, she broke the gender barrier and became the first woman to play in a Canadian men’s professional baseball league. Given the history-making nature of Sato’s achievement, her first start was a success the second she took the mound at Christie Pits Park.

2 days ago | outsports.com | Karleigh Webb |Cyd Zeigler |Jon Holmes |Ken Schultz

Throughout his life, from being a local phenom in high school in Lansing, Mich., to a decorated college career, Layne Ingram has been all about basketball. “I just remember being a basketball player,” he said in the Outsports Being Out video series. “I wasn’t a girl’s basketball player. I wasn’t a boy’s basketball player. I was a basketball player.”As a player, he was battling within as fiercely as he played on the court. That struggled ended in 2017, when he came out publicly as a transgender man.

2 days ago | outsports.com | Karleigh Webb |Ken Schultz |Cyd Zeigler |Jay Robinson

One thing to understand about transgender people in the comments of any trans-related story: We avoid them at all costs. Even on positive stories, like Tifanny Abreu ending a playoff hot streak with a Superliga title in hand or Nikki Hiltz on the charge in Grand Slam Track, the level of anti-trans ignorance is toxic. This year, and especially last week, has been one long real-life comment section if you are trans, and especially if like sports.

3 days ago | outsports.com | Jon Holmes |Cyd Zeigler |Ken Schultz |Mike Ciriaco

Gus Kenworthy says he has “reignited” his love for skiing and will aim to reach his fourth consecutive Winter Olympics at Milano Cortina 2026. The shock news arrives more than three years after the last Games in Beijing, where Kenworthy finished eighth in the halfpipe final. He said beforehand that it would be his last competition.