Transfeminist Playbook: Sports Edition is a resourceful and timely publication that tackles one of the most weaponized anti-gender narratives – transgender people in sports. It offers critical insights into how anti-gender movements instrumentalize sport while providing a framework that connects transgender participation to wider struggles for gender equality and human rights.
By challenging dominant narratives around “fairness,” the publication highlights the fact that debates around bodies disproportionately target transgender women, but also cisgender women (especially of color) whose bodies do not conform to standards.
Grounded in principles of inclusion, dignity, and justice, the Playbook is both a call to action and guidance inviting communities, institutions, and allies to resist exclusionary agendas and uphold the values that sport claims to represent.
Authors: Marko Vukčević, Aleksa Milanović, Marija Ratković, Jovan Džoli Ulićević, Nađa Bobičić, Matea Stefanović
Summaries by: Marija Jovanović
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Table of contents
Introduction
Naida Kučukalić
Who Gets to Compete? The History of Sex Segregation in Sport
Marko Vukčević
The Role of Sport in Upholding the Gender/Sex Binary and Western Ideals of Femininity
Aleksa Milanović
Biology, Biopolitics, Bioethics, and Trans People in Sport
Marija Ratković
Why the Issue of Transgender People in Sport Matters in the Post-Yugoslav Balkans: The International and Neocolonial Nature of the Anti-Gender Movement
Jovan Džoli Ulićević
A Transfeminist Analysis of Media Coverage of “Gender Troubles” in Sports
Nađa Bobičić i Matea Stefanović