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Issues Issues
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Barriers to Sport Participation Barriers to Sport Participation
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Sport, Gender, and Power Sport, Gender, and Power
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Sex Segregation Sex Segregation
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Unfair Advantage Unfair Advantage
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Sex Testing Sex Testing
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Policy Evolution Policy Evolution
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2004 Stockholm Consensus 2004 Stockholm Consensus
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2011 IAAF and 2012 IOC Consensus Statement on Hyperandrogenism 2011 IAAF and 2012 IOC Consensus Statement on Hyperandrogenism
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2015 IOC Consensus Meeting on Sex Reassignment and Hyperandrogenism 2015 IOC Consensus Meeting on Sex Reassignment and Hyperandrogenism
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2015 Suspension of Hyperandrogenism Rules/2018 Testosterone Level Modification 2015 Suspension of Hyperandrogenism Rules/2018 Testosterone Level Modification
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2020 World Rugby Ban on the Participation of Transgender Women 2020 World Rugby Ban on the Participation of Transgender Women
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2021 Framework on Fairness, Inclusion, and Non-Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity and Sex Variations 2021 Framework on Fairness, Inclusion, and Non-Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity and Sex Variations
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Summative Assessment on the State of Policy Play Summative Assessment on the State of Policy Play
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Approaches Approaches
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Competing Epistemologies Competing Epistemologies
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Positivists Positivists
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Critical Feminists Critical Feminists
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Feminist Science Scholars Feminist Science Scholars
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Debates Debates
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Physiological Equivalence? Physiological Equivalence?
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Unfair Advantage? Unfair Advantage?
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Beyond Sex? Beyond Sex?
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Reconfiguring Sport Reconfiguring Sport
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48 Sport, Transgender Athletes, and Nonbinary Experience
Get accessTravers is a professor of sociology at Simon Fraser University. They are the author of The Trans Generation: How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) Are Creating a Gender Revolution (2019). In addition to a focus on transgender issues in general, they have published widely on issues related to sport, gender, sexuality, and social justice. Travers is currently deputy editor of the journal Gender and Society.
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Published:21 September 2022
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Abstract
Transgender and nonbinary athletes experience significant obstacles to sport participation that are primarily related to prevalent sex-segregated and/or sex-differentiated institutions, spaces, and activities. Sport reflects and reinforces a Eurocentric, hetero-patriarchal binary sex system, and this requires the containment of women and nonbinary athletes who threaten to throw this social, economic, and political configuration into disarray, whether as individuals they are interested in doing so or not. This chapter provides an overview of literature relating to the experience of transgender and nonbinary people in sport, situates transgender participation in the broader context of modern sport as an historically specific formation, and provides an overview of scholarly debates about female eligibility policies that target transgender women and women with naturally higher testosterone levels than the so-called female norm.
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