Which sports could be played easily without having gender - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

• What could be alterna/ve categories in sport?
• Which sports could be played easily without having

gender categories?

• Female hyperandrogenism – high level of testosterone
• some women disqualified or forced to change their healthy

body to be able to par/cipate in compe//ons

• a guy has a double level of

testosterone than the other guys – should he be disqualified or forced to change his body?

• a basketball player is "too tall”?

– should he be disqualified or forced to change his body?

Mainstream sport

• Rules too strict and discrimina/ng, especially for intersex people
• Only testosterone maDers?
• What about socioeconomical status?

LGBTIQ sport

• we can change the rules to make sport more inclusive
• making our own rules where everybody will feel comfortable and safe

Inclusive sport and safe spaces for intersex people

• Changing rooms and toilets - common areas of anxiety and reported

harassment

• RegistraDon forms and sport IDs? (M/F)
• How to provide safe spaces where intersex

people feel comfortable with their iden//es, including the fact of not being LGBT?

• Swimming pools and swimwear?
• Using FINA rules in LGBTIQ sport?
• Inclusive??

Inclusive sport and safe spaces for intersex people

• Taboo, secrecy, shame, s/gma, discrimina/on, depression…
• Sport group as a support group?
• How to learn more about the specific challenges of intersex people in

sport?

• Do organizers of sport ac/vi/es, trainers and sport teams in our LGBTIQ

clubs know enough about intersex people and their problems in sport?

• If not, what can be done to improve the situa/on?

QuesDons 1

Do we need gender categories in sport? What could be alternaDve categories?

QuesDons 2

How to provide safe spaces where intersex people feel comfortable?

• changing rooms?
• toilets?
• swimwear and other sportswear?
• registraDon forms?
• shame, sDgma, depression?
• learning about other challenges
• educaDon of trainers, organizers, teams
• ...

Do we need gender categories in sport? What could be alternaDve categories?

How to provide safe spaces where intersex people feel comfortable?

• LGBTIQ sport and mainstream sport should be more inclusive
• raising awareness, taking acDons, changing the rules
• LGBTIQ - add the “I”, but only if you are willing to work for intersex people’s

rights

• LGB, transgender and intersex – can be good allies
• OII Europe - Organisa/on Intersex Interna/onal Europe
• iieurope.org
• „Standing up for the human rights of intersex people” (PDF)

ILGA Europe www.ilga-europe.org