Onside Or Offside? : Women's Sport and Transgender Inclusion

Following IOC guidance, many sports assented to a major change that uniquely affected women's sport. Athletes may now play in the category aligned to their self-declared gender, ignoring biological sex. Thus, a paradox for women's sport: while sport is a physical contest, biological females are now pitted against one special group of biological males, those who identify as women. Can inclusion co-exist with fairness, physical safety, and integrity in women's sport? Is erasure of female achievements and records acceptable? Are rewards, fame, affirmative programs, and sporting careers for natal females not important? Does female sport even cease to exist? This text presents the bio-physiological-sport science research that dismantles the myth of no performance advantage of transitioned transwomen athletes. This information is essential background to assist athletes, graduate students, sports administrators, the public, and LGBTQI communities to debate this hot button issue openly and respectfully--

Author: Helen E. Parker, Beth Hands, Elizabeth Rose

Publisher: Common Ground Research Networks

Publication Date: Apr 26, 2024

Number of Pages: NA pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1957792728

ISBN-13: 9781957792729