Why the Binary?: Cisnormativity in Athletics

Author(s)

Iliana Smiser, Augustana College, Rock Island IllinoisFollow

Course

WGSS-350 Queer Theories

Document Type

Student Paper

Publication Date

Spring 2021

Disciplines

Gender and Sexuality | Sports Studies

Description, Abstract, or Artist's Statement

This paper examines the cisnormative environment created by men's and women's labeled sports, and how claims often used to exclude transgender, non binary, and intersex athletes are disproved by psychology and physiology. It also discusses the NCAA's current policies on the inclusion of transgender, non binary, and intersex athletes.

Comments

1st Place Winner, Short Analytical, 2021

Augustana Digital Commons Citation

Smiser, Iliana. "Why the Binary?: Cisnormativity in Athletics" (2021). Audre Lorde Writing Prize.
https://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/wollstonecraftaward/42

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License