Description:
Acknowledging the formidable hurdles trans and nonbinary athletes face in their struggles for inclusion, acceptance, and freedom, this book documents and analyses their resistance across a range of social-cultural and geopolitical contexts, from community sport to high-performance competition.
Review Quotes:
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 Perspective