1. The first paragraph of a news article should answer the questions who, what, where and when. List the who, what, where and when of this news item. (NOTE: The remainder of a news article provides details on the why and/or how.)

2. a) How has the Justice Department’s position regarding the three female high school athletes’ lawsuit changed from the stance it took under President Trump?
b) Do you support the new policy? Explain your answer.

3. What does Alanna Smith hope people will realize?

4. For what reasons is the girls’ attorney concerned about the Equality Act that is supported by the Biden Administration?

5. What is the goal of the lawsuit?

6. Do you think the three girls have a legitimate argument against having to compete with transgender athletes? Explain your answer.

7. Almost all of the viewers commenting on the ABC News report supported the girls’ position opposing having to compete against transgender athletes. The following are some of the viewer comments. With which do you agree most/least?

• "This is so unfair. Biological girls could be losing shots at scholarships while competing against biological males."
• "So now when colleges look at the rosters for scholarships, [biological males] will dominate the female category and [biological] females won't get any scholarships."
• "They’re not biological girls and their body types are still different than a girls. This is no difference than taking performance enhancing drugs to win."
• "Hormone therapy doesn’t change the size of their heart and lungs which give biological males a huge aerobic advantage."
• "If Mike Tyson says he identifies as a woman and steps in the ring as a woman against a biological woman, what would be said?"
• "Remember that woman who transitioned to male and dominated the men's sports? Neither do I."

8. In a Feb. 25 commentary, Piers Morgan wrote in the UK Daily Mail:

The majority of trans women born to male biological bodies who've gone through puberty are self-evidently going to be bigger, stronger, faster and more powerful than women born to female biological bodies.

…This is not me being 'transphobic,’ it's me stating an obvious fact.

That's why we have gender-specific competition in almost every sport and events like the Olympics.

Put bluntly: Serena Williams is the greatest female tennis player ever but would be beaten by any of the Top 1000 men's players.

And if this new (Biden) presidential endorsement of trans women's rights to compete in women's sport becomes the accepted norm, then women's sport as we know it in America will be destroyed.

Do you agree with Mr. Morgan’s assertions? Explain your answer.