TY - BOOK AU - Barnes,Katie TI - Fair play: how sports shape the gender debates SN - 9781250276629 AV - GV709 .B28 2023 PY - 2023///] CY - New York PB - St. Martin's Press KW - Gender identity in sports KW - Intersex athletes KW - Civil rights KW - Sex discrimination against women KW - Sex discrimination in sports KW - Law and legislation KW - Sexism in sports journalism KW - Sports for women KW - History KW - Sports KW - Social aspects KW - Stereotypes (Social psychology) in sports KW - Transgender athletes KW - Women athletes KW - Legal status, laws, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- The two genders -- Thirty-seven words -- No bow lesbo -- The runner in South Africa -- It's biology, and we can't change that -- The wrestler -- The runners in Connecticut -- The breakup in women's sports -- The quest to save women's sports -- The case of Lia Thomas -- Why aren't we talking about transgender men? -- The answers to the questions I'm always asked -- The future of policy -- Epilogue: The march toward restriction N2 - "A richly reported and provocative look at the history of women's sports and the controversy surrounding trans athletes by a leading LGBTQ+ sports journalist. For decades women have been playing competitive sports thanks in large part to the protective cover of Title IX. Since passage of that law, the number of women participating in sports and the level of competition in high school, college, and professionally, has risen dramatically. In Fair Play, award-winning journalist Katie Barnes traces the evolution of women's sports as a pastime and a political arena, where equality and fairness have been fought over for generations. As attitudes toward gender have shifted to embrace more fluidity in recent decades, sex continues to be viewed as a static binary that is easily determined: male or female. It is on that very idea of static sex that we have built an entire sporting apparatus. Now that foundation is crumbling as a result of intense culture wars. Whether we are talking about bathrooms, gender affirming care for trans youth, or sports, the debate about who gets to decide gender is being litigated every day in every community. Many transgender and intersex athletes, from a South African runner, to a New Zealand power lifter, to a wrestler in Texas, to Connecticut track stars, have captured the attention of law and policy makers who want to decide how and when they compete. Women's sports, since their inception, have been seen as a separate class of competition that requires protection and rules for entry. But what are those rules and who gets to make them? Fair Play looks at all sides of the issue and presents a reasoned and much-needed solution that seeks to preserve opportunities for all going forward"-- ER -