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Summary:

"This formative work discusses transgender people's inclusion in everyday sport in the United Kingdom. It adopts a trans feminist approach to explore pivotal issues regarding the barriers to participation faced by transgender and non-binary people. Offering a critical perspective on the current landscape surrounding this topic, the book draws from insightful interviews conducted by the author with 18 transgender and non-binary individuals. The author uses a critical social science approach to explore the heteropatriarchal construction of sport in the modern industrialised West, and how this has formed the backdrop to the continuing discrimination towards many athletes, not just those who are transgender. Using first-hand perspectives, it focuses on the three themes of the sporting body, sporting spaces and sporting communities. It investigates why conversations about fairness and safety regarding transgender athletes have become so polarised within the media, and the significance of taking a trans feminist approach to reducing barriers in sport. Lastly, the book's key findings initiate a dialogue on the importance of gender affirmation in sport, the value of supportive teammates/role models and how sporting spaces can be reimagined to promote greater inclusion for all"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• The social construction of modern sport
• Transgender and non-binary people in sport
• Towards a trans feminist methodology and an ethics of care
• Sporting bodies
• Sporting spaces
• Sporting communities.

Author/Creator:

Barras, Abby , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Transgender and non-binary people in everyday sport: a trans feminist approach to improving inclusion [by Barras, A.]

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Transgender and non-binary people in everyday sport [by Barras, A.] (Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025 — ISBN 9781003385486; LCCN 2024029487; OCLC Number 1449678420)

Related Series:

Gender and sexualities in psychology

Subjects:

Transgender athletes — Great Britain

Gender identity in sports — Great Britain

Feminist theory — Great Britain

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

xiv, 185 pages ; 24 cm.

Call Numbers:

GV708.8 .B37 2025

ISBNs:

9781032466170 (paperback)
1032466170 (paperback)
9781032472997 (hardback)
1032472995 (hardback)
9781003385486 (ebook) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2024029486

OCLC Numbers:

1449678972