Protecting women’s sports? Anti-trans youth sports bills and white supremacy

An unprecedented number of anti-transgender youth sports bills have been introduced in various state legislatures across the United States since 2020. These bills seek to bar trans youth from playing and competing in sports that align with their gender identity. Scrutinizing the rise in these bills...

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Published inCommunication and critical/cultural studies Vol. 20; no. 4; pp. 397 - 415
Main Author Fischer, Mia
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Taylor & Francis Ltd 02.10.2023
Subjects
Cultural studies
Gender aspects
LGBTQ athletes
Transgender persons
White supremacy
Womens sports
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Summary:An unprecedented number of anti-transgender youth sports bills have been introduced in various state legislatures across the United States since 2020. These bills seek to bar trans youth from playing and competing in sports that align with their gender identity. Scrutinizing the rise in these bills and the fearmongering that accompanies them, this article untangles how the deployment of a white feminist rhetoric of “protecting women’s sports” by a coalition of anti-LGBTQ Christian conservative forces and trans-exclusionary radical feminist (TERF) women’s sports advocates shields these bills and their proponents from accusations of transphobia and bigotry while obscuring their white supremacist underpinnings.
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ISSN:1479-1420
1479-4233
DOI:10.1080/14791420.2023.2267646