Justice for Trans Athletes

Ali Durham Greey (they/them) is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto. Their work examines the experiences of trans and non-binary people in sport and in education. Ali is a SSHRC-Joseph-Armand Bombardier Scholar and a retired member of the Canadian Olympic boxing team.Helen Jefferson Lenskyj (she/her) is Professor Emerita, University of Toronto. Her work as a researcher and activist on gender and sport issues began in the 1980s, and her critiques of the Olympic industry include seven books, most recently The Olympic Games: A Critical Approach (Emerald, 2020).

• Chapter 1. Introduction: The Binary World of Sport; Ali Durham Greey and Helen Jefferson LenskyjChapter 2. The Future of Women’s Sport Includes Transgender Women and Girls; Jaime Schultz, Anna Baeth, Anne Lieberman, Lindsay Parks Pieper, and Elizabeth A. SharrowChapter 3. Making Sense of Debate Over Transgender Athletes in Olympic Sport; Roger Pielke Jr.Chapter 4. ‘Female’ Sport and Testosterone Panic; TraversChapter 5. Competitive Fairness or Inclusion: Balancing Governance and Human Rights Law; Lauren McCoy CoffeyChapter 6. Examining World Rugby’s Transgender Ban and Perspectives of Women and Girls Who Play Rugby in England, Canada, and Australia; Richard Pringle and Erik DenisonChapter 7. Something Old, Something New: Biofeminist Resistance to Trans Inclusion in Sport; Madeleine PapeChapter 8. “This Bill is About Fairness”: An Argument Against the Prioritization of Competitive Fairness at the Expense of Justice in US School Sport; Colleen English and Lindsay Parks PieperChapter 9. Mediated Moral Panics: Trans Athlete Spectres, the Haunting of Cisgender Girls, and Politicians as Moral Entrepreneurs in 2021; Anna Baeth and Anna GoorevichChapter 10. “We’re Missing That Humanity”: A Feminist Media Analysis of Laurel Hubbard and the Tokyo Olympic Games; Monica Nelson, Shannon Scovel, and Holly ThorpeChapter 11. Conclusion: Challenges, Struggles, and the Way Forward; Ali Durham Greey and Helen Jefferson Lenskyj

The sudden controversies over trans women's place in elite sports call for investigation. This book traces how moral panics have been fabricated to justify prejudice and exclusion. It carefully unpacks the policies of different sports bodies, and shows how a spurious rhetoric of 'science' is invoked to maintain social barriers. Equally important, the authors offer a positive approach based on principles of justice. In brief: an important resource.