Transgender Athletes in Competitive Sport

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Synopsis

While efforts to include gay and lesbian athletes in competitive sport have received significant attention, it is only recently that we have begun examining the experiences of transgender athletes in competitive sport. This book represents the first comprehensive study of the challenges that transgender athletes face in competitive sport; and the challenges they pose for this sex-segregated institution. Beginning with a discussion of the historical role that sport has played in preserving sex as a binary, the book examines how gender has been policed by policymakers within competitive athletics. It also considers how transgender athletes are treated by a system predicated on separating males from females, consequently forcing transgender athletes to negotiate the system in coercive ways. The book not only exposes our culture’s binary thinking in terms of both sex and gender, but also offers a series of thought-provoking and sometimes contradictory recommendations for how to make sport more hospitable, inclusive and equitable.
Transgender Athletes in Competitive Sport is important reading for all students and scholars of the sociology of sport with an interest in the relationship between sport and gender, politics, identity and ethics.

Book details

Series:
Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
Author:
Eric Anderson, Ann Travers
ISBN:
9781315304250
Related ISBNs:
9780367233198, 9781138235632, 9781315304274
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Pages:
228
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2023-09-18
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2018
Copyright by:
Eric Anderson, Ann Travers 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Nonfiction, Social Studies, Sociology, Sports