Female-Only Sports and Spaces: Recommendations for Substack Publications
A Guide for Feminist, TERF, Sex-Realist, Athletic, and Curious Readers
For more info in this series, see #FastFacts.
Want to read news and analysis about the need for female-only sports and spaces? See these lists of publications below.1
“The most gender nonconforming thing I do - and I do it every day - is tell men who want women's stuff to fuck off, and then fuck off some.” — Helen Joyce
What am I missing? Do tell and I’ll expand these lists.
Substacks That Are Mostly or Frequently About Female-Only Sports & Spaces
These publications are dedicated to the need for female-only sports and spaces — in some cases, along with some other topics.
Stronger Women by Mariah Burton Nelson: “Weekly stories and insights by pioneering athlete/author/feminist Mariah Burton Nelson on female-only sports; older female athletes; the empowerment of women through sports.”
The Female Category by Sarah Barker: “Interviews, studies, and essays from those who support sex-segregated women's sports.”
Sey Everthing by Jennifer Sey: “A newsletter about woke capitalism and standing up to group-think. And anything else I feel like writing about.”
The TERF Report by Kara Dansky: “Your go-to resource for all things related to the radical feminist movement to protect the sex-based rights of women and girls and to stop the abolition of sex.”
Women’s Sports Policy by Women’s Sports Policy Working Group: “Expert opinion, research, & news by champion athletes and lifelong women's sports advocates who formed the group in 2020 to restore girls’ and women’s legal right to the female-only sports and intimate spaces we deserve.”
Substacks That Are Sometimes About Female-Only Sports & Spaces
These publications cover a variety of topics related to feminism, women’s rights, and lesbian rights — including female-only sports & spaces.
Courage Coalition, by the LGB Courage Coalition: “Lesbian, gay, bisexual adults concerned with pediatric gender medicine and the censorship of dissent. We won't be silenced.”
Democrats for an Informed Approach to Gender, by DIAG Democrats: “Solid blue takes on sex, lies, and gender-woo.”
Eyes Open, by Lisa Shultz: Advocate for Parents
Gender, a Wider Lens, by Stella O’Malley and Sasha Ayad: “An Informed Look at the Shifting Gender Landscape and How It’s Impacting Kids, Families and Society.”
gender: hacked by Eliza Mondegreen: “I’m a researcher and I’m fascinated by gender.”
Helen Joyce: Journalist, campaigner for women’s rights and author of “Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality”
Heterodorx, by Nina Paley and Corinna Cohn: “TERF and Tranny” on “gender — and anything else they find interesting and/or horrifying — with warmth, sarcasm, respect, cutting intelligence, more sarcasm, and disarming honesty.”
Informed Dissent, by Ben Appel, Corinna Cohn, Lisa Selin Davis, Eliza Mondegreen, Jamie Reed: Podcast “trying to explain and mitigate the gender culture wars.”
Inspecting Gender, by Genspect: “A healthy approach to sex and gender”
LGB Voices, “a digital publication where news, advocacy, and art converge” by LGB Alliance, “a group of lesbian, gay and bisexual people committed to advancing the rights of and safeguarding protections for LGB people.”
MA4Women: “Women from Massachusetts and surrounding NE states. Most of us are liberals or progressives. Some of us are feminists. Some are lesbians. Our Substack provides relevant information and links to actions we and others are taking to ensure that women's and girls’ sex-based rights are restored.”
Reality’s Last Stand by Colin Wright and Christina Buttons: “Provides weekly news, analysis, and opinion on topics related to free speech, science, and reality.”
Reduxx Weekly Roundup by Reduxx: “Pro-Woman. Pro-Child Safeguarding. Anti-Bullsh*t.”
She’s Right You Know, by Katherine M. Acosta: “Explores and explains the larger contemporary political context within which we work as feminists, why ‘working with the Right’ is a bad idea, how we can develop a powerful, independent movement to advocate our interests, as feminists did during the Second Wave in the 1960s and 1970s.”
Tales from the Gender Trail by Amanda Kovattana: “How I came to find myself on the gender trail, where it led me and the merry band of intrepid sex realists I befriended along the way.”
Til Sex Do Us Part by Terf Vibes: “My personal/political 'battle of the sexes' as the XX author of a PhD in feminist politics and two tragicomic memoirs, one on my dancing girlhood, the other a feminist critique of the 'body positivity' movement. Also, men aren't women.”
The Lesbian Project Podcast by Kathleen Stock and Julie Bindel: “Kathleen is a former philosophy professor and current contributing writer at UnHerd. Julie is a journalist and feminist campaigner. Both of us have become somewhat notorious for rejecting most of the nonsense churned out by LGBTQ+ organisations as regressive, unscientific lunacy.”
The Real Science of Sport Substack: The Substack for the Science of Sport Podcast. “Sports scientist Professor Ross Tucker and sports journalist Mike Finch break down the myths, practices and controversies from the world of sport.” performance.
What About Women, by Milli Hill. “What about women? It’s a question that I think all policy makers and people of influence should have set as their screensaver, or maybe even be gifted as a semi-compulsory tattoo.”
Woman: Adult Human Female by “A community of women determined to speak freely on all things impacting women in law, policies, education, sports, entertainment, health, and the home. We recognize sex as an immutable genetic reality, and we understand that this reality creates a distinct set of needs for women to ensure our health, safety, security, and dignity.”
You're Kiddin', Right? By Karen Davis, “Pro-Reality Discussion of the Gender Wars”
I look forward to your comments, corrections, additions.
See also:
related stories in my #SaveWomensSports section.
related stories in my #FastFacts section.
Twitter/X is also a great source of info on this topic. To get started there, search for #SaveWomensSports.
Best quote ever: “The most gender nonconforming thing I do - and I do it every day - is tell men who want women's stuff to fuck off, and then fuck off some.” — Helen Joyce
Great list!