The heated debate over trans athletes in the WNBA Inside the Games | September 17, 2026 +++

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/09/17/the-heated-debate-over-trans-athletes-in-the-wnba/ Three-time Olympic gold medalist Nancy Hogshead-Makar has created a petition demanding that the WNBA spell out that its players must be biological women. Currently, the petition has topped 11,000 signatures and is aiming for 100,000, as Marcos Menocal Pareja reports for Inside the Games. Outing students: California court says schools need not notify parents of their child’s gender identity—unless they ask Los Angeles Times | September 17, 2026 https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/09/17/outing-students-california-court-says-schools-need-not-notify-parents-of-their-childs-gender-identity-unless-they-ask/ California schools don’t have to tell parents when a student comes out as transgender — but if a parent asks, the school has to answer honestly, a San Bernardino County judge ruled on September 15, 2026, reports Howard Blume for The Los Angeles Times. The decision is the latest turn in a years-long fight over the Chino Valley Unified School District’s push to require staff to alert parents about students’ gender identity. Doomsday cult? Why we should be suspicious of end-of-the-world claims CNBC | September 17, 2026 https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/09/17/doomsday-cult-why-we-should-be-suspicious-of-end-of-the-world-claims/ Marc Andreessen is done listening to AI’s doomsayers, and he wants everyone else to stop too. The venture capitalist behind Andreessen Horowitz published a nearly 7,000-word manifesto arguing that fears of artificial intelligence turning on humanity are wildly overblown, and that the loudest doomers have their own incentives to keep sounding the alarm, as reported by Hayden Field for CNBC.