Trans Athletes’ Resistance

The Struggle for Justice in Sport

Helen Jefferson Lenskyj editor Ali Durham Greey editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Emerald Publishing Limited

Published:9th Nov '23

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Trans Athletes’ Resistance cover

With sport representing one of the last bastions of binary thinking, trans and nonbinary athletes face formidable hurdles in their struggles for inclusion, acceptance, and freedom. Trans Athletes’ Resistance: The Struggle for Justice in Sport documents and analyses individual and collective resistance initiated by trans and nonbinary athletes and allies across a range of social-cultural and geopolitical contexts, from community sport to high-performance competition.

In addition to sociological investigations of global, national, and local resistance, contributors present case studies and first-person accounts of struggles to challenge structural barriers and interpersonal hostility.

Challenging policy-makers' binary definitions of males and females, the dominance of the achievement model, and toxic masculinity within sporting subcultures, the book explores how trans and nonbinary athletes not only resist transphobic policies and practices but also create new models of inclusive sport.

The book has important implications for gender-inclusive policy development. Contributors present new methodologies and ways of theorizing the complex relationships among sex, gender, and sexuality in the equally complex terrain of sport and physical activity.

Sports, supposed to be healthy, popular recreation and a source of goodwill, have recently become a site of extraordinary prejudice against some participants, on grounds of gender non-conformity. In this clearly-written and impressive book, trans and nonbinary athletes describe the real-life consequences of bans and oppressive regulation. Together with sports scholars, they consider current resistance and future ways to make sports truly fair and inclusive.

-- Raewyn Connell, Author of Gender: In World Perspec

ISBN: 9781803823645

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 371g

176 pages