Sports, transgender rights and the bodily politics of cisgender supremacy

EA Sharrow - Laws, 2021 - mdpi.com
Between 2020 and 2021, one hundred and ten bills in state legislatures across the United
States suggested banning the participation of transgender athletes on sports teams for girls …

'Female'sport and testosterone panic

Travers - Justice for Trans Athletes: Challenges and Struggles, 2022 - emerald.com
While transgender people have had some success in gaining recognition and human rights
in the collection of nations known colloquially as 'the West', a well-financed reactionary …

Sex segregation in strength sports: Do equal‐sized muscles express the same levels of strength between sexes?

R Kataoka, RW Spitz, V Wong, ZW Bell… - American Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Concerns have been raised against the current two‐sex binary category in sports
competitions. The thesis states that if males and females were separated based on muscle …

IX at 50: A critical celebration

J Schultz - Women in Sport and Physical Activity …, 2022 - journals.humankinetics.com
This article is a critical celebration of Title IX. Fifty years of this landmark civil rights
legislation has brought tremendous progress for girls and women in all areas of the US …

A part of, yet apart from the team: Substantive membership and belonging of trans and nonbinary athletes

AD Greey - Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Increasingly, bills and policies prohibit the participation of trans women in competitive sport.
The current sociopolitical moment begs the following question: how do interpersonal …

Public policy as trans harm: Troubling administrative governance through transfeminist sports studies

E Sharrow - Transgender Studies Quarterly, 2023 - read.dukeupress.edu
The observation that systems of state governance are more apt to do harm or violence to
transgender and gender-diverse people is foundational to the field of trans studies. This …

[HTML][HTML] The Carceral Logic of Female Eligibility Policies: Gender as a Civilizing Narrative, the Science of Sex Testing, and Anti-Trans Legislation

Travers - Sociology of Sport Journal, 2024 - journals.humankinetics.com
Female eligibility policies punish people for gender nonconformity and normalize patriarchal
rule. These policies were used first to exclude women deemed “too masculine” from …

Is it a four‐star movement? Policy transformation and the US women's national soccer team's campaign for equal pay

A English - Social Science Quarterly, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Objective In 2019, the US Women's soccer team (USWNT) sold shirts claiming “It's
not a moment, it is a four‐star movement,” positioning the team as leaders of a …

“You Can't Go to the Dance Because You Don't Have a Male Role Model in Your Life”: Heteronormativity, Stigmatization, and Daddy-Daughter Dances

E Temko, E Love, D Baxter, A Loesch… - Sociological …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Gender-specific community and school events such as father-daughter dances are being
challenged across the United States for stigmatizing diverse families. Taking the cue from …

An unhappy marriage?: Sex segregation and inclusion debates in women's sport

M Pape - Routledge Handbook of Sexuality, Gender, Health and …, 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
The world of women's sport as we know it is seemingly contingent upon the strict separation
of women from men on the sporting field, from the grassroots to the elite level. While …