'Fair play' e invisibilidade: A atuação do Comitê Olímpico Internacional para a inclusão de pessoas trans.

Abstract

The present paper aims to examine the inclusion of trans people in sport and the way that the International Committee (IOC) substantiate its actions in this sense. Given the concept of peace by Johan Galtung and Lyman Cromwell White, and also by the Olympic Charter, which contains the idea of social inclusion, this paper explores the history of IOC’s transgender policies through feminist and queer theories, discussing their analyses for the field of International Relations and for the sport community. In light of these analyses, it concludes that the IOC partially fails its goal, not only in the theory point of view but in its fundamental principles as well, of building peace through inclusion because of the strength of the discourse that the use of testosterone by transgender athletes would grant them with unfair advantages in comparison with cisgender athletes, and by the lack of adequate response to gender-variance for the challenges that it imposes to the gender-binary structure on which sport is based.