{"id":69441,"date":"2020-12-01T09:17:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T14:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=69441"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:55:01","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:55:01","slug":"donnelly-and-kidd-world-rugbys-ban-on-trans-players-has-nothing-to-do-with-so-called-fairness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2020\/12\/donnelly-and-kidd-world-rugbys-ban-on-trans-players-has-nothing-to-do-with-so-called-fairness\/","title":{"rendered":"DONNELLY and KIDD: World Rugby\u2019s ban on trans players has nothing to do with so-called \u2018fairness\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Donnelly, Assistant Professor of Sport Management at Brock University, and Bruce Kidd, Professor of Kinesiology at University of Toronto, had a piece recently published in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/world-rugbys-ban-on-trans-players-has-nothing-to-do-with-so-called-fairness-150589?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20Canada%20for%20Decemer%201%202020&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20Canada%20for%20Decemer%201%202020+CID_e8d48f6dc080b0be19bc9036f4b9f501&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=World%20Rugbys%20ban%20on%20trans%20players%20has%20nothing%20to%20do%20with%20so-called%20fairness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Conversation<\/a><\/em> about the decision by World Rugby to ban trans players from participating in women\u2019s events.<\/p>\n<p>They write:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe attack on gender-diverse women in sports has gained prominent support by the recent decision from World Rugby to\u00a0ban transgender women from international women\u2019s competition.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The ban perpetuates the harmful gender policing that has plagued women\u2019s sport for more than a century. By limiting trans women\u2019s participation in elite level rugby, World Rugby is sending the inaccurate and discriminatory message that trans women do not belong in women\u2019s rugby \u2014 and that trans women are not women.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Academics around the world\u00a0have condemned World Rugby\u2019s decision. National bodies like\u00a0USA Rugby\u00a0and\u00a0Rugby Canada have said they would ignore the ban in domestic competitions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Other respected sports bodies, like the\u00a0Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport\u00a0and\u00a0Canadian Women and Sport, have promoted policies that are more inclusive for trans athletes.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/world-rugbys-ban-on-trans-players-has-nothing-to-do-with-so-called-fairness-150589?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20Canada%20for%20Decemer%201%202020&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20Canada%20for%20Decemer%201%202020+CID_e8d48f6dc080b0be19bc9036f4b9f501&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=World%20Rugbys%20ban%20on%20trans%20players%20has%20nothing%20to%20do%20with%20so-called%20fairness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Donnelly, Assistant Professor of Sport Management at Brock University, and Bruce Kidd, Professor of Kinesiology at University of Toronto, had a piece recently published in The Conversation about the decision by World Rugby to ban trans players from participating in women\u2019s events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,7,6],"tags":[4753,7488,9761,57,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69442,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69441\/revisions\/69442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}