Transgender Athletes and Gender Identity in Professional Sports
Annotation
The article examines the reasons for the emergence of a large number of transgender athletes in global sports, analyzes recent international and national regulations, including executive orders issued by U.S. President Trump, regulating gender-related legal relations in professional sports. The author pays special attention to the legal, scientific, and medical issues related to gender verification at international sports competitions. The author also studies various conceptual approaches regarding the future of transgender sports worldwide and presents a personal opinion on the matter. The article contains proposals for improving the provisions of international and Russian sports law in the field of gender-related legal relations in its conclusion.
Keywords
- gender identity
- gender ideology
- gender therapy
- transgender athletes
- masculine women
- theory of social constructivism
- deep state
- non-binary people
- bisexuality
- gender reassignment
- anabolic steroids
- androgynous personality
- SRU gene
- Barr test
- estrogen
- androgen
- testosterone
- polymorphous perversity
- sinful nature of human beings
| Type | Article |
| Information | Sport: economy, law, management № 02/2026 |
| Pages | 20-26 |
| DOI | 10.18572/2070-2175-2026-2-20-26 |
