ABSTRACT

This paper offers a discussion of the rationale for the creation of sports categorization criteria based on sporting genealogy and the gendered body, as proposed by Torres et al. in their article ‘Beyond Physiology: Embodied Experience, Embodied Advantage, and the Inclusion of Transgender Athletes in Competitive Sport’. The strength of their ‘phenomenological’ account lies in its complex account of human experience; but this is also what makes it impractical and difficult to operationalize. Categorization rather requires simplicity and practicability, if it is to be applied to all athletes (and not exceptionally to transgender athletes). This discussion helps us to formulate three general principles for the process of categorization of athletes, relating to fairness, verifiability and practicability.

摘要

本文讨论了 Torres 等人提出的基于体育谱系和性别化身体的体育分类标准创建的基本原理。在他们的文章“超越生理学：具身体验、具身优势和跨性别运动员参与竞技运动”中。他们“现象学”解释的力量在于其对人类经验的复杂解释；但这也是使其不切实际且难以实施的原因。如果要将分类应用于所有运动员（而不是跨性别运动员），则分类需要简单性和实用性。这一讨论有助于我们制定运动员分类过程的三个一般原则，即公平性、可验证性和实用性。