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/).
Cite this article
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 ID - Wang2021 ER -