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View article: Concerns regarding the research design, participant selection, and data interpretation of ‘Body composition, exercise-related performance parameters and associated health factors of transgender women, cisgender women and cisgender men volleyball players’
Concerns regarding the research design, participant selection, and data interpretation of ‘Body composition, exercise-related performance parameters and associated health factors of transgender women, cisgender women and cisgender men volleyball players’ Open
This pre-print represents an open letter to the Editor of the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) in lieu of this journal offering a ‘letters to the editor’ option as part of its publishing practice. This work has been posted on the …
View article: Fair and Safe Eligibility Criteria for Women's Sport
Fair and Safe Eligibility Criteria for Women's Sport Open
The Paris 2024 Olympic boxing competition, featuring athletes with alleged male advantages in the female category, has reinvigorated controversy about eligibility criteria for women's sport. Recently, in this journal [1], we explained how …
View article: The International Olympic Committee framework on fairness, inclusion and nondiscrimination on the basis of gender identity and sex variations does not protect fairness for female athletes
The International Olympic Committee framework on fairness, inclusion and nondiscrimination on the basis of gender identity and sex variations does not protect fairness for female athletes Open
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) recently published a framework on fairness, inclusion, and nondiscrimination on the basis of gender identity and sex variations. Although we appreciate the IOC's recognition of the role of sports s…
View article: London 2012 Olympic legacy: a big sporting society?
London 2012 Olympic legacy: a big sporting society? Open
This chapter aims to trace shifts in the stated purpose of sport policy following the awarding of the 2012 Olympic Games to London and to introduce the concept of a 'big sporting society'. This will be theorized within a conceptual framewo…
View article: Sex, sport and money: voice, choice and distributive justice in England, Scotland and Wales
Sex, sport and money: voice, choice and distributive justice in England, Scotland and Wales Open
The three British Sports Councils are instrumental in developing the policy landscape for sport and physical education (PE). They aspire to equality between the sexes in ‘sport and physical recreation’ (SPR), in keeping with their Royal Ch…
View article: Sex, sport and justice: reframing the ‘who’ of citizenship and the ‘what’ of justice in European and UK sport policy
Sex, sport and justice: reframing the ‘who’ of citizenship and the ‘what’ of justice in European and UK sport policy Open
Universalist claims are often made about sport which is, as a consequence, increasingly written into national and international policy documents as an entitlement of citizenship or even as a human right. Further, in most countries in the w…