competitions, an advantage of performance linked to this male hormone and whether trans athletes are systematically winning all competitions. The answer to this latter question, are trans athletes winning everything, is simple—that’s not the case. (as cited in Ermyas & Wakeam, 2021 , para. 8) Thus, efforts to
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Transgender Inclusion in Sport
George B. Cunningham, Risa Isard, and E. Nicole Melton
Gender Discrimination in Sport in the 21st Century: A Commentary on Trans-Athlete Exclusion in Canada from a Sociohistorical Perspective
Sarah Teetzel and Charlene Weaving
Queering Gender Equity Policies for Trans College Athletes
Molly Harry and Ellen I. Graves
)—college sport’s leading governing body—and other national/international sport organizations face criticism for discriminatory policies against trans competitors ( Harry et al., 2022 ). In 2022, the NCAA dissolved its rules on trans athletes and deferred to the national/international sport governing bodies’ (SGB
“Quinn, Who Goes by One Name”: Examining the Media Coverage of the First Openly Trans Nonbinary Athlete to Win an Olympic Medal
Barbara Ravel
for trans people in general. The purpose of this article is to seize the unique opportunity to study the media coverage of a trans athlete that competed in a team sport and reached the pinnacle of success on the soccer pitch. It is therefore at the confluence of scholarship on the media coverage of
A Sporting Body Without Organs: Theorizing Un/Gendered Assemblages
Janeanne Marciano Levenstein
critiques against the current onslaught of anti-trans sports policies and legislation. However, engagement by sports studies scholars with issues of gender and sex, even when explicitly exploring transgender policy regulations and trans athlete experiences or representations, have often overlooked
“FTM Means Female to Me”: Transgender Athletes Performing Gender
Tamar Z. Semerjian and Jodi H. Cohen
Viviane K. Namaste (2000) argues that trans-individuals have been culturally erased and rendered invisible. She contends that academics should begin to explore the realities of transgender individuals’ lives. Transgender identified athletes have begun to garner more media attention in recent years, particularly with the 2004 International Olympic Committee’s ruling allowing transgender athletes to participate in the Olympics. Despite this increasing media attention, there is a considerable lack of academic work focusing on the experiences of transgender athletes, as well as a paucity of any serious theoretical consideration of these experiences. The purpose of this paper is to present trans athletes’ narratives of their sport participation, with attention to how gender identity and performance was or was not a part of this participation. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with four trans identified athletes. The narratives of these athletes portray a way of thinking about gender as a category that is transmutable, unstable, and constantly written and rewritten through embodied performances. Queer theory will serve as the theoretical perspective used to analyze these narratives.
Academic Freedom? Not in the United States (at Least at the Mayo Clinic)
Carl Foster
: transgender athletes and COVID convalescent plasma. Apparently, Mike’s stance on these issues was not in line with the official stance at Mayo. The New York Times interview was about Mike’s work on testosterone and transgender athletes, demonstrating the advantage that trans athletes will have if they
Critical Reflections on the Governance of Women and Gender Expansive Athletes: An Intersectional Interdisciplinary Dialogue
Anna Posbergh, Sheree Bekker, Cheryl Cooky, Madeleine Pape, Sarah Teetzel, and Travers
political movements pushing an antigender, transphobic moral panic ( Baeth & Goorevich, 2023 ). For instance, in the 2022 U.S. legislative session, there were more antitrans youth athlete bills proposed or passed than out trans athletes ( Posbergh & Baeth, in press ): a devastating political reality that
“Stepping Up” for Trans Inclusion in Sport
Lindsay Parks Pieper
maintaining the gender status quo in sport without assessing the actions, appearances, or performances of her cis opponents. As perhaps the most illustrative example of the cissexist double standard in my work, I denounced Richards’s later-in-life stance against trans athlete inclusion yet failed to
Media Analysis of Lia Thomas Surrounding 2022 National Collegiate Athletic Association Championship Win
Jessica L. Hamdan and Adam Love
the frequency with which different media outlets covered Thomas. The fact that Thomas was covered so heavily in right-wing-oriented media is intricately connected with the efforts of conservative politicians to create a moral panic surrounding trans athletes ( Baeth & Goorevich, 2022a ). Given that
