Glitching trans* athletes: possibilities for research and practice in sports coaching

Linghede, Eva; Purdy, Laura; Barker-Ruchti, Natalie

doi:10.1080/21640629.2021.1990656

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“…In this way, the absence of restrictions to TGD participants provided a space where their gender identities were accepted. Other studies examining recreational sport participation among TGD participants reported roller derby to be favoured because of its inclusive policies (e.g., Linghede et al, 2022). This research extends this to show that the inclusive rhetoric in roller derby not only attracts TGD individuals, but rather that the sport offers a space for a range of transitioning, marginalised and alternative identities to come together and feel accepted.…”

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“…This participant notes how teammates made her feel included and supported and that she had found a space in which she could maintain a high level of physical activity in a league explicitly inclusive of transgender identities, something which was not represented in other community sports. Linghede et al, (2022) report similarly positive experiences for one of their transgender participants, who cites the WFTDA gender policy as a motivator to try out roller derby. They note that while roller derby is not free from transphobia, it is ‘light years’ ahead of more established, mainstream sports.…”

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“It Doesn’t Matter How You Identify, You Can Still Skate With Us”: Gender Inclusivity in Women's Flat Track Roller Derby

Kettley-Linsell,

Coates,

Witcomb

2023

Journal of Sport and Social Issues

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Women's flat track roller derby is a grassroots full-contact sport underpinned by an explicit gender policy stating that any self-identifying woman can play, including those who are transgender and gender diverse (TGD). Adopting a queer-feminist lens, this research examined attitudes toward and experiences of gender inclusivity in the sport from the perspective of cis and TGD athletes in the United Kingdom. Reflexive thematic analysis, drawing on survey (n = 153) and interview (n = 20) data, examined how roller derby offers a space accepting of different identities; its underpinning principles surrounding body positivity and how it is perceived a social movement, involving a community of individuals sharing values of equality, diversity and inclusion. This research shows that an inclusive rhetoric surrounding gender not only engages TGD individuals in sport but offers a space for marginalised and alternative identities to participate together.

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“It Doesn’t Matter How You Identify, You Can Still Skate With Us”: Gender Inclusivity in Women's Flat Track Roller Derby

Kettley-Linsell,

Coates,

Witcomb

2023

Journal of Sport and Social Issues

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“…The role of sports coaching must be optimally programmed, to organize the course of coaching in accordance with the program that has been systematically compiled. The achievements of an athlete are largely determined by the quality of the coach and his training program, so a club was established as a forum for training and coaching athletes (Lara-Bercial et al 2022;Linghede et al 2022).…”

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Coaches and Athletes Satisfaction Towards U-16 Sleman Volleyball Championship

Fauzi¹,

Majid²,

Primasoni³

2023

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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This study aims to determine the level of satisfaction of coaches and athletes towards the PBVSI U-16 Volleyball Championship program in Sleman Regency, so that later it can be an evaluation material for the PBVSI of Sleman Regency in organizing the upcoming U-16 Volleyball Championship. This is a quantitative descriptive study. Data were collected through survey. The population in the study was the participants of the 16-year-old volleyball Championship in Sleman Regency. The sample was obtained from a total of 72 male athletes and 24 coaches from 10 clubs. Data analysis techniques in this study used descriptive statistical data analysis techniques. The results showed that the overall level of satisfaction of athletes and coaches with the PBVSI U-16 Volleyball Championship program in Sleman Regency is in the very good category (60.42%) with a frequency of 58 respondents, in the good category of 39.58% with a frequency of 38 respondents, while in the sufficient, less and very less category of 0% with a frequency of 0 respondents. The satisfaction of athletes and coaches in this study was based on 5 (five) factors or variables, namely tangible, empathy, responsiveness, reliability, and confidence factors. Thus, it can be concluded that athletes and coaches are very satisfied with the PBVSI program of the U-16 Volleyball Championship in Sleman Regency.

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Equality DanceSport doing transgender inclusivity in the United Kingdom: Cultural cisgenderism and transgender experiences

Wong

2024

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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In this article, cultural cisgenderism is adopted to investigate Equality DanceSport, a sporting context emerging out of an LGBT+ community. 1 The study questions the extent to which Equality DanceSport enforces regulations and practices which promote trans-inclusivity. Drawing on a constructivist grounded theory approach, I conducted autoethnography and 35 semi-structured interviews with LGBT+ dancers representing diverse genders and sexualities. I examined the discourses shaping the recent revision of Equality DanceSport competition rules in the United Kingdom and the experiences of transgender dancers in the competitive arena. Findings suggest that despite challenging some cis and heteronormative practices in mainstream DanceSport spaces, essentialist notions of sex and gender continue to feed into the shaping of Equality DanceSport's competition rules. These notions are hinged on debates around fairness and inclusivity and inform the constitution of a binary sex category in the competition rules. Transgender dancers face several challenges within the binary sex system, tending to cope through identity compromise. Such a strategy contributes to transgender erasure and invisibility. Overall, this paper provides a critical understanding of trans-inclusivity in an LGBT+ sporting space in the United Kingdom. It highlights the complexity of achieving inclusivity and calls for a critical interrogation which does not conflate LGB with the T when investigating the inclusivity of LGBT+ sporting contexts. The paper concludes with a proposal for radical regulatory and policy changes that question the epistemological understandings of sex and gender and celebrate other values in competitive sports which de-emphasise the focus on winning.

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Glitching trans* athletes: possibilities for research and practice in sports coaching

Cited by 3 publications

References 37 publications

“It Doesn’t Matter How You Identify, You Can Still Skate With Us”: Gender Inclusivity in Women's Flat Track Roller Derby

“It Doesn’t Matter How You Identify, You Can Still Skate With Us”: Gender Inclusivity in Women's Flat Track Roller Derby

Coaches and Athletes Satisfaction Towards U-16 Sleman Volleyball Championship

Equality DanceSport doing transgender inclusivity in the United Kingdom: Cultural cisgenderism and transgender experiences

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