Tag: Anna C. Osborne
A discourse analysis of the trans athlete issue that doesn’t go deep enough
Travis R. Bell & Anne C. Osborne’s Gender Defenders of the Sport Binary: Mediating Discourses of Difference against Intersex and Transgender Female Athletes (Peter Lang Publishing) considers how medical, policy, and media discourses shape understanding of nonbinary athletes, and more broadly cultural understandings of gender as chosen and sex as biologically measurable. Miroslav Imbrišević finds much to oppose against in the authors’ socially constructed concepts, arguing for accepting the existence of "facts of the matter".
