Womanhood Policing In Sport And Human Rights Violations : A Look At Differences In Sexual Development (DsD) Regulations By World Athletics And The Transgender Ban Through A Human Rights Lens

Abstract

This research has established the existence of womanhood policing in sport and demonstrated that indeed the Differences in Sexual Development regulations by the World Athletics (WA) is another tool used to do such. Qualifying the practice as arbitrary in international law brought to the front is the process of conceptualising womanhood in human rights treaties and standards. It then follows that chapter two focuses on the definitional and construction underpinnings of woman as a subject of law and bearer of rights. The hypothesis, as established in the introductory chapter, that human rights on paper and practice are gendered. In establishing the obligations of SGBs in regards to human rights protections, Chapter three answers the question from such a hypothesis. With the need to highlight the harms of the DSD regulations on the athletes concerned, chapter four then applied human rights standard to the practices, stressing the need to rethink the analysis beyond the ambits of the law. To this end, this chapter revisits the research questions to put the findings in focus and provide recommendations to address the problem question.