{"id":4024,"date":"2014-09-15T11:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T05:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak?p=4024"},"modified":"2019-03-19T19:29:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T13:59:41","slug":"blog-roll-sport-is-slowly-catching-up-with-transgender-realities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/blog-roll-sport-is-slowly-catching-up-with-transgender-realities\/","title":{"rendered":"Sport is slowly catching up with transgender realities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>&#8220;The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/sport\/ufc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UFC<\/a>\u00a0was appalled by the transphobic comments made by heavyweight Matt Mitrione,&#8221; stated the mixed martial arts governing body, which recently\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/blogs\/mma-cagewriter\/ufc-suspends-matt-mitrione-transphobic-comments-regarding-fallon-230051067--mma.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suspended Mitrione<\/a>\u00a0after he called male-to-female transsexual fighter\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fallon_Fox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fallon Fox<\/a>\u00a0&#8220;a lying, sick, sociopathic disgusting freak&#8221; in an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/mma-hour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online broadcast<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body-blocks\">\n<p>Fox had sex reassignment surgery (SRS) in 2006, before beginning her professional MMA career in 2012. She won her second women&#8217;s featherweight fight last month and subsequently\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/live.huffingtonpost.com\/r\/segment\/mma-fighter-fallon-fox-comes-out-as-transgender\/5138c3f702a7601f520000a9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">came out as transsexual<\/a>. In historical context, the ensuing furore was utterly predictable, even though the decision to allow Fox to compete was based upon the International Olympic Committee&#8217;s guidelines for transsexual athletes, ratified in 2004 and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sportslawyer.in\/london-2012-ioc%E2%80%99s-new-rules-for-transgender-athletes-are-sexist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revised<\/a>\u00a0after the gender test row around\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/sport\/caster-semenya\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Caster Semanya<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the article where it was originally published\u00a0in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2013\/apr\/16\/sport-catching-up-transgender-realities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 This article was commissioned after a suggestion by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2013\/apr\/10\/you-tell-us#comment-22633317\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">averagewhitemale<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This post was orginally published in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2013\/apr\/16\/sport-catching-up-transgender-realities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The\u00a0UFC\u00a0was appalled by the transphobic comments made by heavyweight Matt Mitrione,&#8221; stated the mixed martial arts governing body, which recently\u00a0suspended&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":4050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,270],"tags":[25,269,45,284],"class_list":{"0":"post-4024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blog-roll","8":"category-sports-and-sexuality","9":"tag-sexualities","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-transgender","12":"tag-transsexual"},"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4024"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16411,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024\/revisions\/16411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}