What do transgender athletes, driver’s licenses, Medicaid, teachers, and 150 racing corgis have in common? Somehow, they all made the news this week.

On this episode of the Gender-Centered Podcast, Dr. Corinne Votaw-Freer looks at a week of stories connected by one larger theme: identity and recognition.

We begin in Kansas, where a transgender Army veteran temporarily regained a female marker on her driver’s license following a court ruling. The case opens up a much bigger conversation about government identification, privacy, sex markers, and why sex needs to appear on a driver’s license in the first place.

From there, we get into the increasingly contentious debate over transgender athletes. Tennis pioneer Renée Richards has weighed in again on athletic advantage, while new Pew Research Center ...