Sydney Sweeney’s nude ad for a sports betting app is not ‘all about sports’, despite her claims. Across the board, athletes tell us that her fight to ‘own the gaze’ has done nothing but furthered the fetishisation of women’s bodies in sports and fitness

This month-end will mark six months since the Transgender (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill 2026 became an Act. We trace the trail of devastation it has wrought by making gender-affirming care a humiliation ritual for many