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About the Journal

Sociology of Sport Journal

Published four times a year (March, June, September, December), the Sociology of Sport Journal (SSJ) publishes original research, framed by social theory, on exercise, sport, physical culture, and the (physically active) body. Analyses from diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives are encouraged to stimulate further research, critical thought, and theory development on topics ranging in broad scope from global professional sport, coaching, commercial exercise/fitness, and recreational physical activity. The journal publishes an array of peer-reviewed research articles, research notes, and book reviews.

The purpose of the Sociology of Sport Journal is to stimulate and communicate research, critical thought, and theory development on issues pertaining to the sociology of sport. The journal publishes peer-reviewed empirical and theoretical papers; book reviews; and critical essays. Analyses of sport and physical culture from diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives are encouraged. Submissions concerned with sport and physical culture as related to race, class, gender, sexuality, popular media, political economy, globalization, technology, and youth culture are especially welcome.

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Journal Metrics

Sociology of Sport Journal

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Current Issue

Sociology of Sport Journal

SSJ 为季刊，每年发布四期。SSJ 最新一期( Volume 42, lssue 3, Sep 2025)分为"INTRODUCTION""ARTICLES""RESEARCH NOTE""ERRATUM"四个栏目，共计10篇文章，详情如下。

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Content

Sociology of Sport Journal

INTRODUCTION

Sports and the Limits of the Binary: The Contested Terrains of Trans and Nonbinary Athlete Inclusion

Anna Baeth, Anna Posbergh, Sheree Bekker, and Roc Rochon

In this introduction to the second special issue on Sports and the Limits of the Binary: Trans and Nonbinary Athletes and Equity in Sport, we offer a snapshot of the landscape around trans and nonbinary athlete inclusion as of May 2025. We attend to the intensifying political backlash and cultural anxieties surrounding trans and nonbinary people’s participation in sport within the Global North, highlighting the critical interventions of scholars, activists, and advocates operating within and beyond the bounds of academia. Alongside this landscape, we synthesize recent interdisciplinary scholarship to trace the contours of this rapidly evolving field. We conclude by situating the contributions of this special issue within the intersecting sociopolitical and academic terrains, underscoring their necessity in this contested moment.

ARTICLS

Auto-Phenomenographical Understandings of Transness: Lessons in the Self

Jordan Keesler

This auto-phenomenological account of my experiences in competitive softball versus my current experiences in Division I women’s rugby addresses the question: What does an alternative understanding of embodiment look like when sports becomes the means to develop a different “felt sense”? I use my experiences to argue that phenomenology offers an alternative to conventional understandings of trans embodiment that argues comfort is primarily found through medical transition. Instead, being comfortable in one’s body as a trans person can occur in sporting spaces. I complicate this claim by attending to how I and my sporting spaces’ backgrounds (both literal and historical), as well as the essence of my sports (constituted by what we do to or with it), demonstrate that not all sporting experiences are the same and must be deeply contextualized.

Trans People Struggling To Be Human in Sports and Exercise: Passing, Mediating, and Challenging Cis- and Heteronormativity

Isak Auran, Åsa Bäckström, and Håkan Larsson

This study explores how trans individuals struggle to make themselves intelligible as humans in a cis- and heteronormative context of sports and exercise. Ten trans people with present or prior experience in sports and exercise were interviewed. The analysis draws from Butler’s idea of trans people’s exclusion as a question of unintelligibility instead of oppression. The study demonstrates three overreaching ways trans people make themselves discursively intelligible as humans: by passing as cis, by coming out as trans yet mediating potential inconvenience this may pose on others, and by coming out as trans paired with challenging cis- and heteronormativity. We argue that practices aligning to intelligibility as humans are key for trans people in sports, exercise, and possibly in other walks of life.

Trans Athletes in Sport: Not Ceding to the Sex/Gender Binary of Gender Critical Feminism

Michael Burke and Matthew Klugman

Debates over the position(ing) of trans* athletes in sport have been reignited in the last decade because of the confluence of broader political debates over the provision of rights of self-identification for trans* people with the International Olympic Committee’s decision to place responsibility for transgender regulations in the hands of international sporting federations. The effect of this confluence has meant a regressive shift back toward hard essentialism with regard to sex categories in sport. This paper challenges the politically powerful, yet romanticized and historically inaccurate, narrative that so-called gender critical feminists have produced to support this regressive move.

“There Will Always Be Opposition”: Collegiate Coaches’ and Athletic Administrators’ Perceptions of LGBTQIA+ Pride Initiatives

Sarah Stokowski, Chris Corr, Ansley McClain, Nicole Rudnitsky, and Michael G. Godfrey

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA+) individuals face adversity in the form of rejection, stereotypes, discrimination, and violence. In an effort to promote inclusion and allyship, several professional and collegiate athletic programs have begun hosting Pride events. The purpose of this study was to better understand the perceptions and decision-making process of college athletic administrators and coaches regarding Pride programming. Using convenience and snowball sampling, 12 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I athletic administrators and coaches participated in semistructured interviews. Findings revealed that although Pride programming is currently implemented by many National Collegiate Athletic Association member institutions, several factors contribute to athletic administrators’ and coaches’ reluctance to engage in Pride-specific programming. Although significant barriers are discussed, participants agreed that the benefits to developing Pride programming are substantively impactful at both the university and community levels.

Community as the Concession: The Construction and Maintenance of Trans Exclusionary Binaries in Australian Sport

Connor MacDonald

Following the publishing of Sport Australia’s trans inclusion guidelines in June 2019, the Australian Football League and Cricket Australia published their own trans inclusion policies. Therefore, this article displays the results of a policy analysis of these policies and analyzes news media coverage, and respective fan responses, using an online survey. Approached from a poststructural and Queer theoretical lens, binaries, such as inclusion versus exclusion, and elite versus community sport were deconstructed. These binaries were demonstrated to often uphold not only dominant sport discourse, but the gender/sex binary thus, restricting advances for full inclusion. Overall, this research lays the groundwork for future exploration of trans inclusion in the policy, news media, and fandom landscape in the Australian context.

Hyperandrogenism as a Sports Medical Pathology in the Norwegian Media: The Role of the Mass Media in Creating a Phenomenon

Anna Adlwarth

In 2011 and 2012, World Athletics and the International Olympic Committee released eligibility regulations for “Females with Hyperandrogenism,” using the term hyperandrogenism synonymously with intersex variations. This usage deviates from the usual medical definition, which encompasses various medical conditions. Accordingly, the governing bodies constructed hyperandrogenism as a sports medical pathology that requires treatment. Employing discourse analytical methodology to examine 42 Norwegian newspaper and Press Agency articles, this study looks into how the media has contributed to this pathologization. The findings are especially relevant as more and more national and international sport governing bodies will develop their own eligibility criteria for gender- and sex-diverse athletes in the future.

Scientific Neglect: Cis-Bias in the Sociology of Sport’s Approach to Trans Athletes

Félix Pavlenko

In light of the growing interest in trans athletes, this article explores how research on this population has been conducted within the sociology of sport from 2006 to 2021. Drawing on concepts from trans studies and Viviane Namaste’s notions of erasure and oversight, this paper highlights the presence of cis-biases—understood as an interpretation of transness rooted in a cis-centered perspective. These cis-biases are identified at three levels: (1) Theoretical: Limited integration of trans studies, leading to the erasure of trans knowledge; (2) Methodological: Barriers to accessing the field and a lack of participant diversity; and (3) Analytical: A focus on athletes’ bodies and the individualization of discrimination. Ultimately, this article calls for a stronger dialogue between trans studies and the sociology of sport.

RESEARCH NOTE

Saving Women’s Sports? The Ideological Underpinnings of U.S. Public Opinions About Trans* Athlete Rights and Sex Testing, Before Widespread Politicization

Chris Knoester and Kirsten Hextrum

This study uses National Sports and Society Survey (N = 3,993) data to further investigate U.S. public opinions about transgender athletes’ rights, rights for athletes with varied sex characteristics, and sex testing. We focus on the additional implications of wanting to support, promote, and watch female athletes; traditional views of women’s idealized physical appearances; and homophobia for adults’ opinions about these issues. Findings revealed that more strongly believing that female athletes are undeserving, suggesting that women should more fully conform to traditionally idealized physical appearances, and expressing more homophobic views were negatively associated with support for transgender athletes’ rights and rights for athletes with varied sex characteristics—including a restriction of their rights due to sex testing.

ERRATUM

Erratum. Trans* Athletes in Sport: Not Ceding to the Sex/Gender Binary of Gender Critical Feminism

Sociology of Sport Journal

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