ABSTRACT This paper addresses some problems arising with respect to the male/female binary division that has traditionally been central to most sports. One strategy for dealing with this problem is to remove the binary and allow athletes of different sexes to compete together. Firstly, since there are different ways of ‘mixing’ athletes together, a distinction between two major kinds will be introduced: ‘mixed sports’ (sports with an allocated position for a number of males and females in a team, which retains the binary) and ‘unisex sports’ (sport participation of all athletes together based on merit, with no need to distinguish between sexes). Secondly, I shall offer a strategy for the modification of existing sports and the creation of new sports that would accommodate athletes of different sexes in ‘unisex sports’. This means paying attention to how sports are constructed and which abilities/skills they test. For unisex sports, two kinds of logic are suggested: ‘balance of abilities/skills logic’ proposes that we should seek a balance of what we presently understand as female and male (together with sex-neutral) abilities/skills to be included in the sporting challenge; whereas ‘complexity logic’ proposes the creation or modification of sports so as to test for a wider spectrum of abilities/skills.

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中性运动：挑战二元

摘要本文针对传统上对大多数运动至关重要的男女二元分割提出了一些问题。解决该问题的一种策略是删除双打，让不同性别的运动员一起比赛。首先，由于存在将运动员“混合”在一起的不同方法，因此将引入两种主要类型的区别：“混合运动”（为一组中的男女分配位置的运动，保留二进制）和“男女皆宜的运动”（所有运动员都根据成绩参加体育比赛，无需区分性别）。其次，我将提出一项战略，以修改现有运动并创造新的运动，以适应“男女通用运动”中不同性别的运动员。这意味着要注意运动的构造方式以及所测试的能力/技能。对于男女通用运动，提出了两种逻辑：“能力/技能平衡逻辑”提出，我们应该寻求平衡我们目前所理解的女性和男性（以及性别中立）能力/技能。体育挑战；而“复杂性逻辑”则建议创建或修改运动，以测试更广泛的能力/技能。