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Title Justice for trans athletes : challenges and struggles edited by Ali Durham Greey and Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
Edition First edition
Published United Kingdom Emerald Publishing 2023

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Description 1 online resource (201 pages)
Series Emerald studies in sport and gender
Emerald studies in sport and gender.
Contents Introduction : the binary world of sport / Helen Jefferson Lenskyj and Ali Durham Greey -- The future of women's sport includes transgender women and girls / Jaime Schultz, Anna Baeth, Anne Lieberman, Lindsay Parks Pieper and Elizabeth A. Sharrow -- Making sense of debate over transgender athletes in Olympic sport / Roger Pielke Jr. -- 'Female' sport and testosterone panic / Travers -- Competitive fairness or inclusion : balancing governance and human rights law / Lauren McCoy Coffey -- Examining world rugby's transgender ban and the perspectives of cisgender women who play rugby in England, Canada and Australia / Richard Pringle and Erik Denison -- Something old, something new : biofeminist resistance to trans inclusion in sport / Madeleine Pape -- '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 -- Mediated moral panics : trans athlete spectres, the haunting of cisgender girls and politicians as moral entrepreneurs in 2021 / Anna Baeth and Anna Goorevich -- 'We're missing that humanity' : a feminist media analysis of Laurel Hubbard and the Tokyo Olympic games / Monica Nelson, Shannon Scovel and Holly Thorpe -- Conclusion : challenges, struggles and the way forward / Ali Durham Greey and Helen Jefferson Lenskyj.Introduction : the binary world of sport / Helen Jefferson Lenskyj and Ali Durham Greey -- The future of women's sport includes transgender women and girls / Jaime Schultz, Anna Baeth, Anne Lieberman, Lindsay Parks Pieper and Elizabeth A. Sharrow -- Making sense of debate over transgender athletes in Olympic sport / Roger Pielke Jr. -- 'Female' sport and testosterone panic / Travers -- Competitive fairness or inclusion : balancing governance and human rights law / Lauren McCoy Coffey -- Examining world rugby's transgender ban and the perspectives of cisgender women who play rugby in England, Canada and Australia / Richard Pringle and Erik Denison -- Something old, something new : biofeminist resistance to trans inclusion in sport / Madeleine Pape -- '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 -- Mediated moral panics : trans athlete spectres, the haunting of cisgender girls and politicians as moral entrepreneurs in 2021 / Anna Baeth and Anna Goorevich -- 'We're missing that humanity' : a feminist media analysis of Laurel Hubbard and the Tokyo Olympic games / Monica Nelson, Shannon Scovel and Holly Thorpe -- Conclusion : challenges, struggles and the way forward / Ali Durham Greey and Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
Summary "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"-- From ProQuest Ebook Central
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Transgender athletes -- Civil rights
Form Electronic book
Author Greey, Ali Durham, editor.
Lenskyj, Helen, editor.
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