Justice for Trans Athletes -

Justice for Trans Athletes

Challenges and Struggles
Buch | Hardcover
200 Seiten
2022
Emerald Publishing Limited (Verlag)
978-1-80262-986-6 (ISBN)
97,20 inkl. MwSt
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 women’s 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.

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).

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Binary World of Sport; Ali Durham Greey and Helen Jefferson Lenskyj

Chapter 2. The Future of Women’s Sport Includes Transgender Women and Girls; Jaime Schultz, Anna Baeth, Anne Lieberman, Lindsay Parks Pieper, and Elizabeth A. Sharrow

Chapter 3. Making Sense of Debate Over Transgender Athletes in Olympic Sport; Roger Pielke Jr.

Chapter 4. ‘Female’ Sport and Testosterone Panic; Travers

Chapter 5. Competitive Fairness or Inclusion: Balancing Governance and Human Rights Law; Lauren McCoy Coffey

Chapter 6. Examining World Rugby’s Transgender Ban and Perspectives of Women and Girls Who Play Rugby in England, Canada, and Australia; Richard Pringle and Erik Denison

Chapter 7. Something Old, Something New: Biofeminist Resistance to Trans Inclusion in Sport; Madeleine Pape

Chapter 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

Chapter 9. Mediated Moral Panics: Trans Athlete Spectres, the Haunting of Cisgender Girls, and Politicians as Moral Entrepreneurs in 2021; Anna Baeth and Anna Goorevich

Chapter 10. “We’re Missing That Humanity”: A Feminist Media Analysis of Laurel Hubbard and the Tokyo Olympic Games; Monica Nelson, Shannon Scovel, and Holly Thorpe

Chapter 11. Conclusion: Challenges, Struggles, and the Way Forward; Ali Durham Greey and Helen Jefferson Lenskyj

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Emerald Studies in Sport and Gender
Verlagsort Bingley
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 372 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10 1-80262-986-6 / 1802629866
ISBN-13 978-1-80262-986-6 / 9781802629866
Zustand Neuware
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