The last decade has seen significant changes in global attitudes, policies and practices that impact the lives of trans people, but the world of sport has been slow to follow these initiatives.
Contributors to this book document the formidable social-cultural and legal challenges facing trans athletes, particularly girls and women, at the global, national, and local levels, in contexts ranging from school sport to international competition. They demonstrate how proponents of trans exclusion rely on flawed or inconclusive science, selectively employed to support their purported goal of protecting womens sport. Politicians in the US, UK, and elsewhere who have shown little interest in women or in sport exploit the issue to advance broader conservative agendas, while hostile mainstream and social media coverage exacerbates the problem.
Bringing insights from sociology, philosophy, science and law, contributors present cogent analyses of these developments and explore the way forward, providing thoughtful and original recommendations for changes to policies and practices that are inclusive, innovative and democratic.
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The sudden controversies over trans women's place in elite sports call for investigation. This book traces how moral panics have been fabricated to justify prejudice and exclusion. It carefully unpacks the policies of different sports bodies, and shows how a spurious rhetoric of 'science' is invoked to maintain social barriers. Equally important, the authors offer a positive approach based on principles of justice. In brief: an important resource. -- Raewyn Connell, author of Gender: In World Perspective
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1. Introduction: The Binary World of Sport; Ali Durham Greey and
Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
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2. The Future of Womens Sport Includes Transgender Women and Girls;
Jaime Schultz, Anna Baeth, Anne Lieberman, Lindsay Parks Pieper, and
Elizabeth A. Sharrow
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3. Making Sense of Debate Over Transgender Athletes in Olympic Sport;
Roger Pielke Jr.
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4. Female Sport and Testosterone Panic; Travers
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5. Competitive Fairness or Inclusion: Balancing Governance and Human
Rights Law; Lauren McCoy Coffey
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6. Examining World Rugbys Transgender Ban and Perspectives of Women
and Girls Who Play Rugby in England, Canada, and Australia; Richard Pringle
and Erik Denison
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7. Something Old, Something New: Biofeminist Resistance to Trans
Inclusion in Sport; Madeleine Pape
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8. This Bill is About Fairness: An Argument Against the
Prioritization of Competitive Fairness at the Expense of Justice in US School
Sport; Colleen English and Lindsay Parks Pieper
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9. Mediated Moral Panics: Trans Athlete Spectres, the Haunting of
Cisgender Girls, and Politicians as Moral Entrepreneurs in 2021; Anna Baeth
and Anna Goorevich
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10. Were Missing That Humanity: A Feminist Media Analysis of
Laurel Hubbard and the Tokyo Olympic Games; Monica Nelson, Shannon Scovel,
and Holly Thorpe
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11. Conclusion: Challenges, Struggles, and the Way Forward; Ali
Durham Greey and Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
Ali Durham Greey (they/them) is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto. Their work examines the experiences of trans and non-binary people in sport and in education. Ali is a SSHRC-Joseph-Armand Bombardier Scholar and a retired member of the Canadian Olympic boxing team.
Helen Jefferson Lenskyj (she/her) is Professor Emerita, University of Toronto. Her work as a researcher and activist on gender and sport issues began in the 1980s, and her critiques of the Olympic industry include seven books, most recently The Olympic Games: A Critical Approach (Emerald, 2020).
