Fairness for Transgender Athletes in Sports Competition

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211020.321How to use a DOI?

Keywords

sports, transgender athletes, comparative equality, National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), International Olympic Committee (IOC)

Abstract

In the worldwide, transgender athletes as a special group of athletes in the international sport competitions. Their participating rights and relative regulations are another heated topic in the society. Following the history of transgender athletes’ efforts, they were discriminated by the cisgender groups and loss the respects from others. But in America, the transgender athletes in school sports competition also become a controversial area. Each states makes various policies and projects different viewpoint on the transgender athletes. The fairness of transgender athletes continuously confronted the challenge of physiological difference between the transgender athletes and cisgender athletes. This paper provides the policies and historical cases as reference for fair competition. If people want to pursue the fairness of the sport competition, every groups of athletes should confront the public and making efforts to protect their own rights, but in the macro view, the new policies shouldn’t stipulate blindly. It should also focus the rights of cisgender athletes do not get violation.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Hanzhi Wang
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/10/21
TI  - Fairness for Transgender Athletes in Sports Competition
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Public Relations and Social Sciences (ICPRSS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1151
EP  - 1154
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211020.321
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211020.321
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