Tag: Miroslav Imbrišević

When the IOC recently announced its new policy about eligibility in the female category (no male physiological advantage permitted), there was push-back from supporters of the previous, all-inclusive, IOC policy (the Framework Document from 2021). According to Jon Pike and Miroslav Imbrišević their arguments don’t stand up to scrutiny, as they claim to have shown in their previous essay “The Ethics of Sex Verification”. They decided to expand their rebuttal and invite colleagues from other disciplines to help with scrutinizing arguments that oppose the IOC policy.

In Sport, Law and Philosophy: The Jurisprudence of Sport (Routledge), edited by Miroslav Imbrišević, a number of contributions discuss the intersection of law and sport and highlights its usefulness to both legal scholars and philosophers of sport. We asked Westminster Law School Professor Guy Osborn for a review, and his reading of this timely collection gave rise to interesting reflections about the emerging area of jurisprudence of sport where law and philosophy intervenes in a field of human activity governed by rules – sport – that offers scholars a wide range of areas for intervention.

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".

Movimento offers free and immediate access to its content , based on the principle that making scientific knowledge freely available to the public provides greater global democratization of knowledge. The Forum editor’s pick from the current volume: Subverting the rules in sport by Miroslav Imbrišević (open access).

On the 31st October, a group of UN Special Procedures mandate holders, who are independent, unpaid, voluntary experts, published a policy position urging states and other stakeholders ‘to uphold the ideal of sport that is inclusive of LGBT and intersex persons’. Miroslav Imbrišević has studied the policy position in detail and has found many questionable points of departure and objectionable conclusions.

Sport, Ethics and Philosophy is an international peer-reviewed journal which publishes original research contributions to scientific knowledge. It publishes high quality articles from a wide variety of philosophical traditions. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Patriarchy in Disguise: Burke on Pike and World Rugby by Miroslav Imbrišević.

Arguably, trans people are subject to discrimination, or worse. Whether or not they are also, as trans athletes, discriminated in sports is a moot point. In a new edited collection, Justice for Trans Athletes: Challenges and Struggles by Ali Durham Greey & Helen Jefferson Lenskyj (Emerald), the contributors argue for full inclusion of transwomen athletes in the female category of competitive sports. Our reviewer, legal and political philosopher Miroslav Imbrišević is a well-known exponent of the opposite view.

Sport, Ethics and Philosophy is an international peer-reviewed journal which publishes original research contributions to scientific knowledge. It publishes high quality articles from a wide variety of philosophical traditions. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Competitive Team Sport Without External Referees: The Case of the Flying Disc Sport Ultimate by Gerhard Thonhauser.

A group of scientists and humanities scholars has written an expert commentary about the recently published ‘Scientific Review’ by the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport about transwomen’s participation in female sport. The CCES Review, claim the authors, doesn’t deserve its name; it is wholly unscientific, another attempt to replace materially based eligibility criteria in sport with ‘social identity’ as a passport to inclusion, and they highlight its shortcomings in methodology, and its sometimes incoherent, sometimes misleading argumentation.

On June 19, the International Swimming Federation (FINA) approved a significant change to its policy on the inclusion of transwomen, effectively banning any transwoman swimmer from competing in female competition if they have gone through any part of the process of male puberty. In this feature article Miroslav Imbrišević clears up a common misunderstanding that presently obfuscates the debate on transgenderism in sports – eligibility is a governing principle in sports, determining also inclusion.