Swallows and Amazons, or the Sporting Exception To the Gender Recognition Act

McArdle, David

doi:10.1177/0964663907086455

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“…Yet, during debate around this act, another meaning of safety surfaced. Lord Moynihan is reported as saying that “many people will be greatly concerned at the idea of themselves or their children being forced to share a changing room with a transsexual person” (Mcardle 2008, 46). The allusion is that transgender people present a sexual danger to vulnerable others, conflating transgenderism and sexual deviance.…”

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Doing Gender, Determining Gender

2013

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This article explores “determining gender,” the umbrella term for social practices of placing others in gender categories. We draw on three case studies showcasing moments of conflict over who counts as a man and who counts as a woman: public debates over the expansion of transgender employment rights, policies determining eligibility of transgender people for competitive sports, and proposals to remove the genital surgery requirement for a change of sex marker on birth certificates. We show that criteria for determining gender differ across social spaces. Gender-integrated spaces are more likely to use identity-based criteria, while gender-segregated spaces, like the sexual spaces we have previously examined (Schilt and Westbrook 2009), are more likely to use biology-based criteria. In addition, because of beliefs that women are inherently vulnerable and men are dangerous, “men’s” and “women’s” spaces are not policed equally—making access to women’s spaces central to debates over transgender rights.

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Doing Gender, Determining Gender

2013

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“…Transgender students often feel the restroom and locker room selection process (Brill & Pepper, 2008) and/or the decision to participate in sports or other activities traditionally segregated by gender (Dreger, 2010;McArdle, 2008) create no-win situations for them, if they even have any choice in such matters. If they choose a restroom, locker room, or sports team that fits in terms of their personal gender identity, transgender students may experience increased harassment by other students who perceive their choice to be "incorrect"; however, if transgender students pick the restroom, locker room, or sports team perceived to be "correct" by their peers, they themselves may feel out of place, uncomfortable, and vulnerable (Brill & Pepper, 2008;Kosciw et al, 2012).…”

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School Psychologists’ Attitudes Toward Transgender Students

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Savage

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Journal of LGBT Youth

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The purpose of this study was to gain a better understanding of the current attitudes and beliefs held by practicing school psychologists toward individuals who identify as transgender. A review of literature revealed a lack of information about the needs of transgender students in schools. The authors of this study created a ten-question survey that was distributed to practicing school psychologists across the United States. The authors found that school psychologists with more experience working with transgender students are more comfortable addressing the needs of those students; that persons who are more confident in their ability to work with transgender students have more positive attitudes toward this population; and that the majority of school psychologists who participated in this study were willing or more than willing to work with transgender students. The implications of these results are discussed in relation to school psychology graduate education and the needs for future research.

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“…To complicate matters further, even if testosterone is a hormone that matters, and even if new studies will show that females with a naturally occurring variation in testosterone have an athletic advantage, is this advantage necessarily unfair? As Mcardle (2008) points out, expecting normality in an elite athlete is a contradiction in terms. Elite sport is full of athletes who are already physical and/or genetical 'outliers' -individuals whose advantage (e.g.…”

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The promise of glitching bodies in sport: a posthumanist exploration of an intersex phenomenon

Linghede

2018

Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health

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This paper is about glitching bodies-bodies that break, crash and confuse the conventions of pre-programmed and binary gender patterns. Exploring the promise of an intersex phenomenon; hyperandrogenism in women's sport, I discuss how glitching bodies and a feminist posthumanist understanding of gender can contribute to the field of gender and queer sport studies. Responding to calls for research enacting how non-binary bodies challenge the dualistic gendered ontologies that have structured the performative practices of sport in highly exclusive ways this paper is a travelogue into a messy nature-cultural phenomenon. It is partly a theoretical and methodological exploration and partly an analytic endeavour. The phenomenon of hyperandrogenism is explored and untangled by engaging in a diffractive analysis where I 'plug in' the concepts of intra-activity and glitch. I argue that a feminist posthumanist understanding of gender and diffraction as a methodological practice helps us move away from habitual and normative readings that zero in on either male or female, either nature or culture and either material or discursive. This implosion of binaries in turn opens up for alternative ways of thinking and being bodies in sport (studies). Just as Foucault stated that there can be no reason without madness, Gombrich wrote that order does not exist without chaos, and Virilio stated that technological progression cannot exist without its inherent accident, I am of the opinion that flow cannot be understood without interruption, or functioning without 'glitching'. This is why we need glitch studies. Rosa Menkman This paper explores the promise of an intersex 1 phenomenon; hyperandrogenism in women's sport. It is a travelogue 2 into a messy phenomenon that breaks, crashes and confuses the conventions of pre-programmed and binary gender patterns, that is a glitching phenomenon. The paper is in part a theoretical and methodological exploration and in part an analytic endeavour. Like Lather (2007) I think that strolling down unchartered terrain and getting lost once in a while is a way of coming to know. But although getting lost can make you see things you never saw before, I do not wish the readers to get completely disorientated, and I will therefore describe the structure of the paper. Following a brief background, I present the phenomenon of hyperandrogenism that I will explore and untangle. Secondly, I situate my analysis within posthuman feminist theory, arguing for a reintroduction of nature and the material as a vital, and agential, element within the field of gender and queer sport studies. Next, I set up the scene for diffraction as a methodological practice and introduce the concepts I use as tools to ARTICLE HISTORY

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Swallows and Amazons, or the Sporting Exception To the Gender Recognition Act

Cited by 12 publications

References 37 publications

Doing Gender, Determining Gender

Doing Gender, Determining Gender

School Psychologists’ Attitudes Toward Transgender Students

The promise of glitching bodies in sport: a posthumanist exploration of an intersex phenomenon

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