Creating a Non–Gender Binary Sports Space

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ID13087609
AuthorsJing Yang (0009-0004-1715-4513, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume10
Issue2
Pages116-132
Publication date2023-05-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueTSQ Transgender Studies Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2328-9252 • E-ISSN: 2328-9260
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/23289252-10440762
OpenAlexW4407697003
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited18

Trans inclusion policies remain one of the major issues facing contemporary trans rights movements in the United States. In sports, where sex segregation has rarely been challenged, trans inclusionary policies have emerged as a public debate in which key values of liberal individualism such as fairness, meritocracy, and safety collide with trans athletes' rights to belong in a public arena. While queer feminists' scholarship on sports has criticized the notion that trans inclusion policies do not necessarily problematize a binary gender ideology and sports institutions' authority in policing athletes' bodies, few studies have investigated alternative sports spaces and policies to challenge the sexist culture and binary sex-based structure of mainstream sports. This article introduces the Queer Women Games, a non–gender binary sports competition in Korea, as an experimental site to imagine and implement gender justice in sports through organizational actions and collective involvement. First, the author compares the QWG's nonbinary policies with transgender inclusion policies in recreational sports in terms of their approaches to sex segregation, sports authorities governing athletes' genders, and transgender exclusion. Then the author argues that the nonbinary policy opened a dialogue, which seems to be foreclosed in inclusion-based approaches, by undoing sex segregation and building a consensus on rejecting gender policing

Arithmetic · Binary number · Computer Science · Mathematics · Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports Analytics and Performance · Sports, Gender, and Society

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