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Saraswati Rathod
Saraswati Rathod

Saraswati Rathod (she/her/hers) is a 1L student at Stanford Law School, where she is a member of the Transgender, Gender-Nonconforming, and Intersex Pro Bono Project and a member editor of the Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties. Prior to attending law school, she worked as a researcher, fact-checker and writer for The Nation, Mother Jones, and WIRED.

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SMU Dedman School of Law professor Joanna L. Grossman and Stanford Law 1L Saraswati Rathod explain why recent efforts in various states to ban transgender women and girls from competing in women’s sports are dangerous and misguided. Professor Grossman and Ms. Rathod argue that the actions purport to solve a problem that doesn’t even exist, and they risk substantial harm to a vulnerable group of women and girls, as well as to women’s athletics across the board.