Transgender and Sports

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Transgender and Sports
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The participation of the Transgender in the Transsexual women in sports has always
remained a topic for debate in the world of Sports. The controversy and the opposition came
from the ends of the male domain and the female domain. The recent claim by the Australian
Government, that, the transgender will be included in the world of sports, has again resumed
the debate. Recently, the Cricket Australia, has propounded that sports will never encourage
forms of discriminations, and they have passed a policy that states that the transgender people
will be included in the world of sports, both at the elite level and at the grass root level. The
sport’s national governing body have announced that sports are for everyone, therefore, all
the games, especially, cricket will included gender diverse approach and will include the
transgender. The CEO of Cricket Australia, Kevin Roberts have stated that cricket has the
most diverse attitude, and it is all about physical strength and stamina, therefore, cricket will
essentially include a diversified approach in the game and will include the transgender and
gender diverse players, as that will help the country to gain a higher position in the world of
cricket. He added that the transgendered and the gender diverse players will be included in
the female elite to compete with the women. However, the board has decided some
parameters, one of which is that the concentration of testosterone in their serum must be
below 10 nano moles per liter. They have said that fairness will be preserved for all, and no
discrimination will be made. The selection process will follow a complete ethical rule,
ensuring a fair competition amongst (Cunningham. 2019). The CEO is of the opinion that this
decision should be made across the world, and their initiation will inspire the board of cricket
of other countries to include such a perspectives within.
The inclusion of the transgender within sports has been an age old topic and the
people have opined their varied opinions since. Historically speaking, sports have always
been seen as a male domain, especially games like football, cricket, and tennis. The women
were also not included in the International Olympic Committee. Therefore, to gain a position

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in the sports world, the women had to also fight to gain their position in the sports world.
Therefore, the touch of masculinity in the sports was included by the perception of women’s
sports. The sports bodies of different countries had included the women’s sports section into
the system. The inclusion of women’s sports was further challenged by inclusion of the gay
sports men and the transgendered (Jones et al. 2017). There was a revolutionary situation
when the women sports section was first included in the Olympics. It was seen that the world
was not ready to consider women into the sports. It is still perceived that women should not
be playing cricket and football or the car racing games, from a basic notion, all the games
which requires more stamina and physical strength should not be played or participated by
women. Therefore the women had to fight with thee society to gain their position in such
games. However, when they are faced with competitions from gay men sports sand the
transgendered sports, it was the women, who had voiced against the concepts. The
transgendered and the gay men were to get included in the women section, for their
masculine touch, and it added up to the competition among the women sports section. The
women voiced against the inclusion of the transgendered because of their physical strength.
The transgendered are as physically capable as the men, it is only because of their other
physical aspects and their feminine aspect, that they are to be included within the women
sports section (Travers. 2018). Therefore, the women of sports are definitely ready to include
the transgendered within the games.
There are little examples where the transgendered were included in the sports. An
early the first transgendered women to take part in the sports world was Renée Richards, who
had to went through a gender re- assignment therapy to get included into the women tennis
team. Her inclusion in the women’s tennis team was a ground breaking event that had
revolutionized not only in the sports world but also in the society. She had to face many
protests, the media had went frenzy against her. Certain sects of Feminist even voiced against