Gender defenders of the sport binary : mediating discourses of difference against intersex and transgender female athletes /

"Sex and gender are interconnected, conflated, different, and complex. Arguably there is no cultural arena more affected by the complexity of sex/gender than sport, where the presumed need for a male/female binary is personalized, medicalized, and politicized. Gender Defenders of the Sports Bin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Bell, Travis R. (Author), Osborne, Anne C. (Anne Cunningham) (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, USA : Peter Lang Publishing Inc., [2025]
Series:	Communication, sport, and society ; v. 13.
Subjects:	Sex role and sports > United States. Gender identity in sports > United States. Femininity in sports > United States. Intersex athletes > United States. Transgender athletes > United States. Gender-nonconforming athletes > United States. Identité de genre dans les sports > États-Unis. Sportifs intersexués > États-Unis. Sportifs transgenres > États-Unis.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Sex as fundamental to women's sport
Discourse of defense : sport policy as a foundation of sex-segregation
Discourse of diagnosis : medicalizing intersex and transgender
Discourse of difference : American newspaper coverage from 1900-1959
Discourse of dissuasion : sport's institutionalization of testing femininity, 1960-1969
Discourse of defiance : athletes finally have a voice, 1970-1999
Discourse of division : sex segregation under the cloak of gender inclusion, 2000-2016
Discourse of cis-duty : a panicked return to sex exclusion, 2017-2023
Conclusion: Discourse of destruction : emphasized femininity to discipline gender for intersex and transgender athletes.