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Transgender Student-­Athletes And Sex-­Segregated Sport: Developing Policies Of Inclusion For Intercollegiate And Interscholastic Athletics, Erin E. Buzuvis

Faculty Scholarship

This Article discusses the discrimination of transgender students who may be excluded, discouraged, or simply made to feel uncomfortable participating in athletic programs for their natal sex, by the sex-segregated world of athletics. The Author believes that until sports' governing bodies develop and enforce policies of inclusion, transgender students will continue to be denied access to and the benefits of athletic participation. The Author examines the values that should go into the formation of such policies, including legal, medical and educational concerns. Part I of the Article puts transgender students' athletic participation in context by examining educational athletic's deep and …