Transgender athletes in competitive sport
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Transgender athletes in competitive sport
(Routledge research in sport, culture and society, 82)
Routledge, 2017
- : hbk
Available at 5 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
While efforts to include gay and lesbian athletes in competitive sport have received significant attention, it is only recently that we have begun examining the experiences of transgender athletes in competitive sport. This book represents the first comprehensive study of the challenges that transgender athletes face in competitive sport; and the challenges they pose for this sex-segregated institution. Beginning with a discussion of the historical role that sport has played in preserving sex as a binary, the book examines how gender has been policed by policymakers within competitive athletics. It also considers how transgender athletes are treated by a system predicated on separating males from females, consequently forcing transgender athletes to negotiate the system in coercive ways. The book not only exposes our culture's binary thinking in terms of both sex and gender, but also offers a series of thought-provoking and sometimes contradictory recommendations for how to make sport more hospitable, inclusive and equitable.
Transgender Athletes in Competitive Sport is important reading for all students and scholars of the sociology of sport with an interest in the relationship between sport and gender, politics, identity and ethics.
Table of Contents
Introduction
[Eric Anderson and Ann Travers]
Section I: Individual Stories of Transgender Sporting Experiences
1. Advantage Renee?: Renee Richards and Women's Tennis
[Lindsay Parks Pieper]
2. My name is Jay, I Transitioned and I'm a Disabled Young Athlete
[Jay Anonymous]
3. Becoming Me: Transitioning, Training and Surgery
[Riley McCormack and Maylon Hanold]
Section II: Research into Transgender Sporting Experiences
4. An Introduction to Five Exceptional Trans Athletes from Around the World
[Kinnon MacKinnon]
5. Between Stigmatization and Empowerment: Meanings of Physical Activity and Sport in the Lives of Transgender People
[Agnes Elling and Kiki Collot d'Escury]
6. Athletes' Perceptions of Transgender Eligibility Policies Applied in High-Performance Sport in Canada
[Sarah Teetzel]
7. Sport and Physical Exercise among Spanish Trans Persons
[Victor Manuel Perez Samaniego, Sofia Pereira-Garcia, Elena Lopez-Canada and
Jose Devis-Devis]
8. Honesty and Discipline: Identity Management of Transgender Netballers
[Brendon Tagg]
9. The Experiences of Female-to-Male Transgender Athletes
[Mark Ogville]
10. Media Accounts of the First Transgender Person to Work in the English Premier League
[Rory Magrath]
Section III: When Policy and Identity Clash
11. Subjective Sex: Science, Medicine and Sex Tests in Sports
[Vanessa Heggie]
12. Including Transgender Students in United States School-Based Athletics
[Helen Carroll]
13. Transgender Athletes in Elite Sport Competitions: Equity and Inclusivity
[Eric Vilain, Jonathan Ospina Betancurt, Nereida Bueno-Guerra and Maria Jose Martinez-Patino]
Section IV: Challenging the System
14. From Transsexuals to Transhumans in Elite Athletics: The Implications of Osteology (and Other Issues) in Levelling the Playing Field
[Michelle Sutherland, Richard Wassersug and Karen Rosenberg]
15. The Tenuous Inclusion of Transgender Athletes in Sport
[Adam Love]
16. Queer Genes? The Bio-Amazons Project: A Response to Critics
[Claudio Tamburrini]
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