Trans athletes fight for inclusion in sports & racial economy of college football

Edge of Sports

Dave Zirin / The Nation

News, Sports News, Sports, History, Politics

4.8 • 616 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Inclusion for trans athletes in sports has become a flashpoint in the culture war that extends from schools to international competitions. Katie Barnes joins Edge of Sports to discuss their new book, Fair Play: How Sports Shape the Gender Debates, which offers one of the most comprehensive views yet on how the struggle for inclusion in the realm of sports has much wider social and political consequences. Dave Zirin also has Choice Words about why the public financing of stadiums is little more than corporate theft writ large. And on Ask a Sports Scholar we have Prof. Tracie Canada to speak about her cutting edge work about the racial economy of college football. Plus, we have a new segment called Ask Dave!

Katie Barnes

Twitter: katie_barnes3

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250276636/fairplay

Tracie Canada

Twitter: tracie_canada

https://www.traciecanada.com/

Zirin, Congressional Support for a Cease-Fire Isn’t Too Much to Ask

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/jamie-raskin-gaza-ceasefire/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Edge of Sports, the podcast, brought to you by The Nation magazine.
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0:17.6	Now let's start the show. I'm really excited about this one. Let's go.
0:23.5	Transathletes in sports and the book that explains it all. Today on Edge of Sports.
0:29.2	A champion is bred from hard time scar mine standing on the ledge. The squad grind all
0:34.5	time victory in spite of opposition. Welcome to competition.
0:39.3	You pick a side, I pick a side, they kick aside.
0:42.3	Take a knee against abuse, they rather you die pushing through dark tunnels.
0:45.9	Trying to share light.
0:46.9	The fight is on the moment we ended the game of life.
0:49.6	Get it right for the whole thing gone dead.
0:51.6	Let's go ahead and take it there.
0:53.6	Meet me on the age.
0:58.1	Welcome to Edge of Sports TV only on the Real News Network.
1:02.2	I'm Dave Ziron.
1:03.4	This week we talked to Katie Barnes about their book, Fair Play, how sports shape the gender debates.
1:10.4	It's the study of trans athletes that many of us have been waiting for, covering the
1:14.8	fight for inclusion in the sports world and what that could and should look like.
1:19.6	Also, I have choice words about why the public financing of stadiums keeps happening,
1:25.0	and it's frankly little more than corporate theft writ large.
1:29.1	And on Ask a Sports Scholar, we have a true star, Professor Tracy Canada,
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