Sport NZ’s transgender guidelines are a good start – but can they filter up from grassroots to elite competition?
- Written by Holly Thorpe, Professor in Sociology of Sport and Gender, University of Waikato
Getty ImagesThe release this week of Sport NZ’s new Guiding Principles for the Inclusion of Transgender People in Community Sport caused a minor and predictable controversy. One former parliamentarian called the guidelines “woke ideology”. Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson responded that such opposition was “petty and...
