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In over 25 years, the landscape of equality in sport has shifted enormously in the UK. Equality policies in sports bodies were scarce in the mid-1990s, yet it would be difficult to now find a prominent sport organisation which does not have some form of commitment to basic principles of equality and diversity in sport (Lusted, 2014). Sportscotland, which is the national agency for sport in Scotland, indicated in its strategy document that it would ‘put inclusion at the heart of everything we do’. However, in the review of transgender inclusion in sport it offered some guidance on the matter, but left the detail of policy to governing bodies of sport. LEAP Sports and YoungTreeGenderDiverse, which are sports NGO in Scotland and China, work for greater inclusion for LGBTQ+ people in sports.
The study aims to examine the following questions by comparing and analysing the policies of sports bodies, as well as the campaigns and strategies of NGOs in Scotland and China:
1.How sports bodies have approached this transgender issue, in particular whether they recognise the dichotomy between inclusion and fairness, the place of medical evidence in their deliberations, and whether the possibility exists for innovative solutions to the issue?
2.How sports NGOs have responded to relevant policies, what actions they take, and their impact on policy making and public awareness-raising?"
