All’s fair in love and war, the saying goes, but not necessarily in schools and sports.
That was the topic of the third in Hunter College’s “Promoting Civil Discourse and Intellectual Dialogue” Series, on “A Fairer Playing Field: Trans Rights in School and Sports.”
The discussion featured Lex Horwitz, a Philadelphia-based queer, nonbinary, transgender, Jewish, award-winning LGBTQ+ educator, activist, consultant, public speaker, and researcher. As an undergraduate at Bowdoin College, Horwitz competed on the Varsity Men’s Squash Team and became the first out-transgender athlete in collegiate squash.
Another speaker was Bobby Hodgson, assistant legal director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, works on statewide civil-rights and civil-liberties litigation. He joined the NYCLU in 2013 as a Skadden Fellow, litigating and advocating on behalf of LGBTQ students, and has worked on LGBTQ-related advocacy, immigrants’ rights, police misconduct, and transparency.
Moderating was Erin Mayo-Adam, an associate professor of political science at Hunter who directs the LGBTQ Policy Center at Roosevelt House.
Watch the video below.
