Beyond the Basketball Court: How Brittney Griner's In My Skin Illustrates Title IX's Failure to Protect LGBT Athletes at Religious Institutions

Authors

Leslie C. Griffin, University of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School of Law

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2016

Abstract

Symposium: Playing with Pride: LGBT Inclusion in Sports.

Unlike schoolteachers, janitors, coaches, food-service directors, organists, and other workers, professional athletes usually command center stage in society. Their successes and failures loom larger than life. Sometimes their prominent lives highlight themes hidden from public discussion or neglected by the majority. Professional basketball player Brittney Griner's autobiography does just that, by illuminating how "religious freedom" can undermine equality, especially LGBT equality.

Publication Citation

34 Law & Inequality 489 (2016).

Recommended Citation

Griffin, Leslie C., "Beyond the Basketball Court: How Brittney Griner's In My Skin Illustrates Title IX's Failure to Protect LGBT Athletes at Religious Institutions" (2016). Scholarly Works. 1031.
https://scholars.law.unlv.edu/facpub/1031