PRINCIPLE OF EQUALITY AND TRANSEXUALITY OF ATHLETES: CHALLENGES AND LIMITS FOR SPORTS PRACTICE

Abstract

This research is based on the need to discuss the topic in light of recent decisions made by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), especially about professional transgender athletes who practice their profession. The controversy involving transgender athletes permeates the identification of parity of strength and physical performance, even taking into account the low hormone levels predominant for each sex of origin undergoing modification, a parameter considered to determine the possibility of these athletes acting as official competitors, by international protocols. The discussion revolves around the development of the individual until he undergoes sexual transition, which in the case of male individuals, may occur late, and there are no scientific findings on the level of muscular and physiological evolution that would place them in a position of advantage about female individuals. The situation will be analyzed in light of international standards, and the existing debate in the field, regarding performance in individual and collective competitions. Furthermore, the parameters adopted in light of the principle of equality will be investigated, the premise of which is to treat everyone equally as a way of mitigating the increasingly latent diversity, from the perspective of the dynamics of human relations. The research will be based on bibliographies and will use the deductive method.