Sport Disrupted: Sex_uality Matters

Discover Football, in collaboration with other agencies, will host the Sport Disrupted: Sex_uality Matters conference to highlight the interactions between sexuality and participation in sports, and discuss ways to move towards a more inclusive future.

Sport is about performance only, so sports organisations claim, and sports policies promote sports for all. Yet, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) still affect participation. At the Sport Disrupted: Sex_uality Matters conference, grassroots and nonprofit LGBTIQ initiatives, activist athletes, sports policy makers and social scientists will discuss:

Effects of sports gender binary and heteronormativity on amateur and professional athletes
Consequences of homophobia / transphobia / interphobia on the daily lives of amateurs and professionals
Sport as tool for empowering LBGTIQ people
Visions and possibilities for an inclusive and non-binary sports world
Challenges for and the meaning of fair competition
Lessons to learn from non-binary grass roots sports and LGBTIQ projects

This conference addresses the role of SOGIESC in sports in the light of current restrictions on human rights and in hope of a more inclusive future. The conference is a cooperation of DISCOVER FOOTBALL, Bilitis (Bulgaria), LEAP Scotland (UK) and Civil Works (Hungary) and is framed by the Erasmus+ project "Diverse Identities in Sports" as well as the Dreilinden foundation.

Registration for the event opens in June 2019, for further information please contact: [email protected]