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- Title
Transgender Inclusion in Single-Sex Competition: The Case of Beauty Pageants.
- Authors
Bialystok, Lauren
- Abstract
Much ethical attention has been devoted to sex segregation and its relation to fairness in the world of sports, with prominent controversies about transgender and intersex athletes helping to advance the debate in recent years. In this paper, I deploy some of the discussion from philosophy of sport to examine the fairness of allowing a trans woman to compete in a beauty pageant. This requires scrutinizing the physical characteristics that are rewarded in such competitions and their distribution among the sexes. The analysis casts doubt on the coherence of simple sex segregation and facilitates a feminist critique of beauty standards.
- Subjects
TRANSGENDER people; SINGLE sex classes (Education); BEAUTY contests -- Social aspects; DISCRIMINATION against intersex people; INTERSEXUALITY; SEX discrimination
- Publication
Social Theory & Practice, 2016, Vol 42, Issue 3, p605
- ISSN
0037-802X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5840/soctheorpract201642318