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While covering the Series, Plinck also talked baseball with the anti-Pride Rangers owner while wearing a rainbow bracelet.

These new awards, in partnership with NCLR, honor transgender athletes as well as other trans people involved in sports, including this journalist.

Kahrl, who in 2002 became the nation’s first out transgender sports writer, announced she will be heading up sports coverage at a major metropolitan newspaper.

Alex Plinck has built relationships with players while covering the Texas Rangers. His story is emblematic of how the game has become more welcoming.

Through poetry, Russell shares his thoughts on the shooting deaths of Tony McDade, George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery.

Here’s the baker’s dozen on Outsports contributing writer and co-host of “The Trans Sporter Room,” Karleigh Webb, as we share a little about the people behind the bylines.

Sports commentator Nick McCarvel came out in 2016. That hasn’t slowed down his career one bit.

A mainstay at WEEI for the last few years, Alex Reimer will now be walking the halls of the State House.

Steve Buckley is one of the most revered out gay sports columnists in the media.

Colleagues and friends of Bo Churney have raised about $20k.

Dave Doyle opens up about his personal and professional lives.

Nick McCarvel covers tennis and Olympic sports.

Alex Reimer came out Wednesday. He writes about sports for SB Nation, Forbes and other publications.

Syracuse sports writer Sam Blum used his final column for The Daily Orange to come out publicly as gay. He wrote about finding acceptance from people in his life yet still searching for acceptance from himself.

Chris Hine of the Chicago Tribune points out the gay issues the NFL still refuses to tackle in meaningful ways.

Tony Paul covers baseball for the Detroit News. In the wake of the legalization of gay marriage, he chose to come out on TV.

Peter King wrote a column earlier this month supporting his lesbian daughter's recent marriage to her wife, Kim. Now for Father's Day, Laura King thanks her father for his public and private "love and support."

Another media member indicts everyone else while claiming how forward and positive "the media" is.

There are basic rules on reporting about and discussing trans people every sportswriter should live by. Bill Simmons' crew broke them all with last week's article on the inventor of a golf putter.

Christine Daniels was a pioneering trans sports writer for the Los Angeles Times. When she transitioned back to her former self and took her own life, it sent shockwaves through the trans community.