Each issue of Global Sport Matters aims to share knowledge and focus its storytelling around a topic that makes an impact on sport and the world at large.
Beyond the Binary in Sport
The spectra of sex, gender, and sexuality challenge our traditional understanding of sport and competition, but are increasingly central to the conversation around athlete and fan experience.
With legislation and organizing increasing around how these various identities intersect, sport makes a natural landscape for discourse and broadening our knowledge of these conversations. How are perspectives changing, and what can we discover by diving into the multitudes underneath these nuanced topics?
"In order to be recognized as ballers, you’ve got to do stuff that excludes other people"
'Sex, Gender and Sexuality In Sport' Research Is Opening Eyes Across Arizona State University
"Hearing lawmakers talk about us in a way that dehumanizes us ... is detrimental."
