Podium for Positive Change

This session will analyze the place of trans women in competitive sports, both contemporarily and historically. Through tracing concurrent historical events and major advances for women’s sports in general, I will position the inclusion of trans women in sport as a quantitative indicator of democratic principles beyond sport. Using an Albertan Social Studies 30 framing of liberalism and illiberalism, I argue that fulsome inclusion of all women in sport is globally intrinsically linked with reduced inequity, citizen engagement, and freedom of the press. This argument will also be situated within the current Albertan context of trans exclusion and feature results from a province-wide study of the implementation of Bill 29. (Div 1, 2, 3, 4)