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Picked Last: A Review Of Transgender Athletes’ Experiences In Sport, Jacqueline Villanueva
Picked Last: A Review Of Transgender Athletes’ Experiences In Sport, Jacqueline Villanueva
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Transgender athletes have a long and complicated history in relation to the sports they exist within and the governing bodies that surround them. As well, their unique relationship to their gender identity, their teammates, and to their sport, is oftentimes strained. Major sporting organizations such as the International Olympic Committee or FINA have often been at the centre of controversy with transgender participation policies that lack the needed elements of equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Through a review of the pertinent literature from prominent journals in the sociology of sport and queer methodology, literature pertaining to transgender athletes and policy from …