Stamped With the Badge of Inferiority: Transgender Student Athlete Bans as Curriculum

• In Event: Fairmont Roundtable Session Fifteen
  In Roundtable Session: Queering Curriculum and Critical Discourses in K–12 Spaces (Table 12)

Abstract

In keeping with the conference theme of "Interrogating Consequential Education Research in Pursuit of Truth" and producing education research that is “(a) designed to matter in public policy and practice and, concurrently, (b) interrogated to ensure equitable processes and results,” the objective of this paper is to examine transgender student athlete bans from a curriculum theory perspective that frames the current debates as part of a larger discourse about the social, cultural, and educational integration of transgender, intersex, and nonbinary individuals and to explore the impact of transgender sports bans on the formal, hidden, and social curriculum around the relationship between gender and sex.

Author

• Nicholas E. Mitchell, University of Kansas
  Presenting Author