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Anderson, Eric; Travers, Ann

doi:10.4324/9781315304274-1

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“…Sport’s binary organisation disregards the spectrum of identities with which one may identify. For example, only recently have we seen increased scholarly attention pertaining to the participation of transgender athletes ( Anderson and Travers, 2017 ). The underrepresentation of genders beyond the binary reveals how gender-normative stereotypes function to exclude participants from reaping the benefits of accessible and inclusive Safe Sport.…”

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‘Safe Sport Is Not for Everyone’: Equity-Deserving Athletes’ Perspectives of, Experiences and Recommendations for Safe Sport

2022

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There is a growing concern that the voices of athletes, and in particular, athletes from equity-deserving groups, are unaccounted for in the development and advancement of Safe Sport initiatives. The lack of consideration of the needs and experiences of diverse groups is concerning, given the existing literature outside the context of sport indicating that equity-deserving individuals experience more violence. As such, the following study sought to understand how equity-deserving athletes interpret and experience Safe Sport. Grounded within an interpretive phenomenological analysis, semi-structured interviews were used to understand how athletes with marginalised identities conceptualise and experience Safe Sport. Seven participants, including two Black male athletes, two White, gay male athletes, one Middle Eastern female athlete, one White, female athlete with a physical disability and one White, non-binary, queer, athlete with a physical disability, were asked to conceptualise and describe their experiences of Safe Sport. The findings revealed these athletes perceived Safe Sport as an unrealistic and unattainable ideal that cannot fully be experienced by those from equity-deserving groups. This interpretation was reinforced by reported experiences of discriminatory comments, discriminatory behaviours and systemic barriers, perpetrated by coaches, teammates, and resulting from structural aspects of sport. The findings draw on the human rights literature to suggest integrating principles of equity, diversity and inclusion are fundamental to safeguarding equity-deserving athletes.

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‘Safe Sport Is Not for Everyone’: Equity-Deserving Athletes’ Perspectives of, Experiences and Recommendations for Safe Sport

2022

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“…Similarly, further research examining when and how gender-collaborative training is most effective would be valuable, as well as physiological research on how best to maximize gender-collaborative training. Gender segregation in sport also has profound consequences for trans athletes (Anderson and Travers, 2017), and a greater understanding of how gender-collaborative training can lessen prejudice and make sport more trans inclusive would be beneficial.…”

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Gender-collaborative training in elite university sport: Challenging gender essentialism through integrated training in gender-segregated sports

Ogilvie

McCormack

2020

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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Competitive teamsport at university level is predominantly segregated by gender in many western countries, despite concerns that gender segregation in sport can perpetuate sexism and gender inequality. While policies and activities seek to challenge sexism and gender inequality, the use of gender collaboration within a gender-segregated system as a method to achieve this has received little attention. In this article, we draw on a year-long ethnography of elite sport and 48 in-depth interviews with elite male and female athletes at a British university to explore the impact of various forms of gender mixing during training, which we call ‘gender-collaborative training’. While men’s and women’s teams competing against each other in practice matches resulted in gender-essentialist narratives attributing difference to biology, gender-integrated practices and workouts provided opportunities for men and women to train together without the gendered sport-specific associations that can reproduce sexism. We call for gender-collaborative training to be adopted by gender-segregated teams, and suggest that where there is resistance to any integration, teams start with mixed physical workouts and progress to mixed sport-specific training and then mixed competitive training.

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“…We thus delineate that, given the referendum on marriage equality focused on same-sex marriage, we are most specifically talking about gays and lesbians. We also do this in order to avoid generalising results from these populations onto bisexual and transgender athletes, for whom there is little research (Anderson and Travers, 2017), as well as for intersex athletes, for whom there is also very little research (Linghede, 2018). We argue that collapsing these disparate groups homogenises their experiences as one, erasing important and often striking differences between them (Worthen, 2013).…”

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“…We argue that collapsing these disparate groups homogenises their experiences as one, erasing important and often striking differences between them (Worthen, 2013). For example, bisexual and transgender people have far higher rates of mental illness than gay and lesbian people, and transgender athletes face entirely different institutional barriers than cisgender gay and lesbian athletes (Anderson and Travers, 2017).…”

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Conceptualising organisational cultural lag: Marriage equality and Australian sport

Parry

Storr

Kavanagh

et al. 2021

Journal of Sociology

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This article develops a theoretical framework to understand how sexuality can be institutionalised through debates about marriage equality. We first examine 13 Australian sporting organisations concerning their support for marriage equality and sexual minority inclusion before showing they drew cultural capital from supporting episodes of equality exogenous to their organisation, while failing to promote internal inclusion. We use online content analysis alongside the identification of institutional speech acts within policy to analyse results through three conceptual lenses: Ahmed’s institutional diversity work, Ogburn’s cultural lag, and Evan’s organisational lag, from which we propose a hybrid – organisational cultural lag – as a theoretical tool within social movement theory.

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Cited by 13 publications

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‘Safe Sport Is Not for Everyone’: Equity-Deserving Athletes’ Perspectives of, Experiences and Recommendations for Safe Sport

‘Safe Sport Is Not for Everyone’: Equity-Deserving Athletes’ Perspectives of, Experiences and Recommendations for Safe Sport

Gender-collaborative training in elite university sport: Challenging gender essentialism through integrated training in gender-segregated sports

Conceptualising organisational cultural lag: Marriage equality and Australian sport

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