So one of America's favorite docs, Dr. Phil, wants to talk about trans inclusion in sports and brought in some voices who are decidedly antagonistic to the discussion. Thankfully, he also called in Pioneer award-winning college basketball Layne Ingram to the fray. With his national television appearance coming up, we beamed up the head women's basketball coach at Lansing Community College (MI), and host of The Reconstructed Man podcast to talk about the debut and the continuation discussions about trans inclusion in sport especially for young people as the issue move forward in recent judicial action and how its making an impact as the 2022 campaign season speeds to Election Day. And coach is gonna brag about his Michigan Wolverines as well. 😉 Also This Week: A Locker Room In Vermont It's not Halloween yet, but it getting creepy in Florida Karleigh on Caitlyn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

D.Gil and Outsports Co-founder Cyd Zigler share their experiences at this year's 2022 Burning Man in Black Rock City, Nevada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Happy Saturday! On this week's show, Alex speaks with Mackenzie Dunford, an out bisexual and non-binary Canadian junior football player about how they're trying to make the gridiron a more inclusive place. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Among the hundreds who have told their coming out stories through the power of sports in Outsports was a collegiate Ultimate Frisbee player in 2017 named Jenna Weiner. At the time when a trans woman was making her first step toward her truth and her game, she sought to open the door for other like her to follow, by asking the tough questions of USA Ultimate and then bringing forth suggestions and solutions. Many of her solutions are a major part of her sport's policies now and she and her sport aren't done innovating. This week, Karleigh Webb sits down with Weiner and looks at how its the so-called "fringe" sports that are fast becoming sport equity's "in crowd". Also This Week: Natalie Ryan battles in a wild final round of one of disc golf's elite events Campaign 2022 Update: Gaines on the plains became a pain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Happy Saturday! On this week's show, Alex talks about the NBA giving Anthony Edwards a light punishment for anti-gay language, UMass Football hosting Liberty for its Pride Day and a Wall Street Journal story about why girls are fleeing high school basketball. Is it because women's basketball has the reputation of being a "gay" sport? Follow Alex on Twitter, @AlexReimer1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, Lovelies! This week we welcome "Cannonball" Justine Ward to the show! They and Brian Bell discuss their journey into pro wrestling, learning the ropes during Covid and the personal triumphs Ward has found during their young career in the ring. Ward also chats about their first main event match against their trainer Covey Christ and how their long-distance swimming talents transferred into the ring! Follow Justine Ward on Twitter: @CannonballJW Grab LGBT In The Ring merch on Brainbuster Tees Follow Brian Bell on Twitter: @WonderboyOTM Follow LGBT In The Ring on Twitter: @LGBTRingPod  The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital! Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and Bandcamp. Check out IndependentWrestling.tv for the best in current and classic independent pro wrestling, including live events from top independent promotions worldwide. Use promo code “LGBTRingPod” or visit tinyurl.com/IWTVLGBT Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This Week we have Aces, Races, Spaces, and a Deep Dive on some different ideas about inclusion. ACES -- How 'bout WNBA Los Vegas Aces. A young team in the image of a go-getter head coach, and why they may be the team to beat for a while. RACES -- We are heading into the fall running season and that means some major races ahead, and two more of the premier marathons have decided to move into the future by offering non-binary divisions for 2023 SPACES -- The state of Virginia is the latest to join the line trying to restrict and prohibit transgender school students from certain spaces, and they may have put forth the most draconian set of policies yet THE DEEP DIVE -- Noted journalist/analyst at intersections of sport, gender, sex and society Maggie Mertens put up an interesting set of views, ideas and prospect for what inclusion could look like on the pages of The Atlantic and some didn't what they read. Karleigh dives inside and looks at what the article said, what it didn't say, and put forth some thought of her own. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Happy Saturday! On this week's show, Alex chats with Sheri Johnson, the CEO of Strong Voices Television, the only LGBTQ-focused streaming service. Alex and Sheri talk about her motivation for starting the network and her desire to broadcast LGBTQ sports to the masses. Alex also talks about Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards' anti-gay social media post, and the muted reaction from the NBA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, Lovelies! Just a few days removed from CasGayDia, we welcome back 1/2 of that show's main event a triple champion Keita to the show! He and Brian Bell discuss how his rise in Without a Cause came to be, his rivalry with PrideStyle anchor Da Shade over the Princex of Pride title and his redeveloping himself into one of the West Coast's most intense and high profile stars. Keita also shares his thoughts on Relentless Wrestling, sharing the ring with Ashton Starr at CasGayDia and why he called out the QWI 200 during his battle with Billy Dixon at Big Gay Brunch Dallas! Follow Keita on Twitter: @KEiTAyourHeart Snag tickets for CasGaydia on Sept. 11 at brainbustertix.com/casgaydia Grab LGBT In The Ring merch on Brainbuster Tees Follow Brian Bell on Twitter: @WonderboyOTM Follow LGBT In The Ring on Twitter: @LGBTRingPod  The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital! Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and Bandcamp. Check out IndependentWrestling.tv for the best in current and classic independent pro wrestling, including live events from top independent promotions worldwide. Use promo code “LGBTRingPod” or visit tinyurl.com/IWTVLGBT Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week's Trans Sporter Room with Karleigh Webb features two mavericks who set their own mark. Skateboarder Leo Baker: Art Above All. Heading into 2020, Leo Baker was one of the top skateboarders in the world. A 6-time X Games medalist, Baker was selected to the 2020 U.S. Olympic Team for Tokyo. That was before the COVID crisis hit and postponed the games. But a few weeks before, Baker made a different decision. For years, they had pushed up the ranks of the sport from the sidewalks and sky parks to the biggest stages while also dealing with a lot of dysphoria and questioning. In February 2020, Baker decided the being themselves was greater than gold. They came out as transmasculine and non-binary, left Team USA and began pursuing their life. That story is now the subject of a documentary called Stay On Board: The Leo Baker Story. Baker beams up to talk about his path, the decision, and why skateboarding in the wild is greater than skating in grandest stage in sport. Cyclist Molly Cameron: Riot Grrls, Gravel and Gravitas Molly Cameron has been riding and racing since the late 90s. Before that she was a musician bashing through the punk/riot grrl scene of the era. It was also the era that she found herself as she also found the love for being on a bicycle and being fast on the road, on the gravel or in a cyclocross of many type of terrain. She was competing as a transgender woman in the days prior to the Stockholm Statement, the "tipping point", and long before the tenuous turmoil is the present day. Her travels through sport are a tale of doing whatever in love with and respect for their sport. In her 40s, she continues to race but has also found a place to speak out for inclusion in her sport and among her industry. In 2021, with a major world championship coming to a place in the USA that has passed one of the over 200 pieces of anti-trans, anti-lgbtq legislation that has cut-and-pasted across the political landscape, Cameron has been a leader in getting the cycling industry to get up to speed as an activist and used competition as a mean to support and build space beyond the "cycling as a toy specifically for the white and well-to-do. That push lead to the formation of Respect Inclusion Diversity and Equality (RIDE), an organization Cameron help found as a educational sounding board about gears manufacturers, bike manufacturers and those who ride. Also this week: A special anniversary at the intersection of sport and inclusion in an MMA cage. History was made September 10, 2021, but why is Alana McLaughlin still stuck at a record 1-0-0 and why this plays into the anti-trans emboldened to get more riled up to push the hysteria up and force lgbtq to folks down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices