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NCAA leadership and multiple outlets say transgender college athletes are extremely rare — NCAA president Charlie Baker testified there are “fewer than 10” among roughly 530,000–510,000 student‑athlet...
The core factual claim across the provided analyses is that out of roughly 510,000 NCAA athletes, which translates to a vanishingly small percentage (well below 0.01 percent) and is repeatedly cited b...
There is no authoritative public count by year of how many transgender athletes have competed in NCAA varsity sports in the sources provided; the NCAA and multiple reporters say the overall number is ...
The NCAA’s current policy (effective Feb. 6, 2025) opens men’s sports to “all eligible student‑athletes” regardless of sex assigned at birth while restricting competition in women’s sports to those as...
Available reporting indicates the NCAA has recently banned transgender women from competing in women’s sports, and NCAA President Charlie Baker told a Senate panel he was aware of “less than 10” trans...
Massachusetts’ post-2020 congressional map changed primarily because of , legal concerns about racial fairness, and political choices during the state’s redistricting process. The state kept the same ...
Massachusetts lost one U.S. House seat after the 2010 census and has held since 2013; the delegation has been in the House for much of the past decade, while the state’s two Senate seats have remained...
Massachusetts’ congressional maps have changed repeatedly in response to decennial censuses and legislative decisions, most recently in 2021 for the 2022 elections, producing an enacted nine-district ...
The Massachusetts state legislature was the primary actor that drafted, voted on, and enacted the 2020-era redistricting plans for congressional and state legislative districts through the Special Joi...
Massachusetts redraws its congressional districts every after the federal census, with the drawing maps and the holding veto power; this cycle produced the maps enacted after the 2020 census and signe...
Governors have twice in recent history connected to U.S.-Mexico border or interior migrant operations: a wave of refusals and withdrawals in 2018 over family-separation policies, and ongoing gubernato...