Gender essentialism and benevolent sexism in anti‐trans rhetoric

S Atwood, T Morgenroth… - Social Issues and Policy …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The past half‐decade has seen an exponential rise in proposed and debated anti‐trans
legislation in the United States. These bills are often positioned at the center of divisive …

Systematic sexism: Women's sports news in a circle of gatekeepers and users on Twitter

B Ayhan, Y Demir - Communication & Sport, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The main purpose of this research is to determine how conventional and digital sports
content producers in Turkey present women's sports news on Twitter, as well as “how much …

Journalists on a journey: Towards responsible media on transgender participation in sport

H Thorpe, M Nelson, S Scovel, J Veale - Journalism Studies, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This paper draws upon interviews to reveal how a small minority of journalists are working
towards more ethical approaches to representing transgender participation in sport. Writing …

NCAA coaches' perceptions of the inclusion of transgender athletes: A qualitative analysis

ML Arnold, K Chambers, TA Petrie - Sport, Education and Society, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) established policies for the
inclusion of transgender athletes to compete in collegiate sport that align with their gender …

Reconstructing, challenging, and negotiating sex/gender in sport: US public opinion about transgender athletes' rights, rights for athletes with varied sex …

C Knoester, R Allison, VT Fields - Sociology of Sport …, 2023 - journals.humankinetics.com
Using data from the National Sports and Society Survey (N= 3,993), this study considers US
public opinion about transgender athletes' rights, rights for athletes with varied sex …

“Having an unfair advantage” vs “playing by the Rules”: media discourses of trans Women's participation in the Olympics

A Kavoura, O Jenzen - Feminist Media Studies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This study reviews UK news media discourses surrounding New Zealand's weightlifter
Laurel Hubbard's participation in the 2020 Olympics as the first ever publicly open …

The perspective of current and retired world class, elite and national athletes on the inclusion and eligibility of transgender athletes in elite sport

AL Shaw, AG Williams, GK Stebbings… - Journal of Sports …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
There has been limited empirical study allowing athletes to voice their opinions on
transgender participation in elite sport. This study surveyed 175 national, elite and world …

Trans youth sport bans and the facilitation of moral panic: a cross-platform comparison of 2022 media narratives

AC Billings, L Moscowitz, JR Jackson… - Mass Communication …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This study incorporates moral panics as a lens for investigating discussions in US news
reports and on social media surrounding anti-transgender youth sports legislation. A total of …

Contradiction or cohesion? Tracing questions of protection and fairness in scientifically driven elite sport policies

A Posbergh - Sociology of Sport Journal, 2023 - journals.humankinetics.com
Much of the resistance and, at times, outright condemnation of including transgender
individuals in sports continue to draw upon “scientific” arguments, despite the acknowledged …

Storying the gender binary in sport: Narrative motifs among transgender, gender non-conforming athletes

AC Zanin, L LeMaster, LC Niess… - Communication & …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
This study utilized a two-tiered, thematic and structural narrative analysis to understand the
ways transgender, gender non-conforming (TGNC) athletes story their experiences of sport …