51cg

The event aims to educate and provide clarity on complex issues surrounding the female category in sport.

The discussion will includes issue such as:

• Sport policies concerning the female category, including their current articulations, history and recent evolutions
• Major sport governing bodies’ current thinking around this category and how these policies have impacted athletes, including trans women athletes and women athletes with variations in sex characteristics
• The effects of these policies at sub-elite levels of competition

The event will also look to future reforms and debates in this area.

Speakers

• Blair Hamilton (Manchester Metropolitan University)
• Hugh Torrance (LEAP Sports Scotland)
• Madeleine Pape (University of Lausanne)
• Sone Erikainen (51cg)
• Federico Luzzi (51cg) (moderator)

This event is organised by the Philosophy Department of the 51cg as a Royal Institute of Philosophy Local Partner and by the 51cg’s Public Engagement with Research Unit. We gratefully acknowledge funding from the Royal Institute of Philosophy and the Scots Philosophical Association.