ГЕНДЕРНАЯ ВЕРИФИКАЦИЯ В СПОРТЕ: ОПЫТ АВСТРАЛИИ

Abstract

The issue of non-discrimination of persons with different gender identities in sports is increasingly discussed both at the international and national level, influencing decisions on the possibility of allowing transgender and intersex people to participate in sports competitions held at the Amateur and professional levels. In Australia, with enough close attention to this issue, an unambiguous position of sports federations has not been formed, which is facilitated by its not sufficiently clear legislative regulation. On the one hand, this is due to the Federal structure of the state, which means that only General approaches are formulated at the Federal level, and the States are given the opportunity to make their own adjustments, which they successfully use. On the other, wide enough discrete authority was given by the sports federations which do not put in front of sports clubs and educational institutions, providing competition with the task of using the results of genetic or hormonal studies for gender verification, given the inevitable in this case, difficulties in organizing and conducting competitions, as well as shared the idea on creation of necessary conditions for inclusion of transgender and intersex persons in full sporting life. This issue is raised only in the case of claims of these persons to participate in international sports competitions, but even in this case it is assumed to be limited to giving them the necessary consultations. The position of the Australian football League in this sense is an exception to the rule, which is the subject of criticism from the standpoint of implementing the principle of equal rights of citizens