Transgender and Non-binary Swimming in the UK: Indoor Public Pool Spaces and Un/Safety
This paper draws from the findings of research that was initiated as a consequence of previous research activities related to University-LGBT community physical activity projects (2012–2018). Specifically, the research underpinning this paper centers transgender and non-binary experiences of recreat...
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| description | This paper draws from the findings of research that was initiated as a consequence of previous research activities related to University-LGBT community physical activity projects (2012–2018). Specifically, the research underpinning this paper centers transgender and non-binary experiences of recreational swimming and aquatic activity (2017–2020). To date, the research has received small amounts of funding from four sources and resulted in two public engagement activities (two art exhibitions). The findings that inform the discussion are taken from nine semi-structured interviews, three focus groups including a professionally drawn illustration of two of these focus groups, and sixty-three research participant's “drawings” as well as informal conversations with eight stakeholders. The findings concern transgender and non-binary people's feelings of un/safety in the public spaces of an indoor swimming pool and the accompanying display of their embodied self. These two elements of un/safety—spatiality and embodiment—are critically discussed in relation to physical activity and in/equality. In this way, the work contributes to sustained University-LGBT community links and provides possibility for evidenced-based intervention to address inequality. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ba11381710324f83a9e498a680f983fc2022-12-21T23:43:13ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Sociology2297-77752020-09-01510.3389/fsoc.2020.00064564003Transgender and Non-binary Swimming in the UK: Indoor Public Pool Spaces and Un/SafetyJayne CaudwellThis paper draws from the findings of research that was initiated as a consequence of previous research activities related to University-LGBT community physical activity projects (2012–2018). Specifically, the research underpinning this paper centers transgender and non-binary experiences of recreational swimming and aquatic activity (2017–2020). To date, the research has received small amounts of funding from four sources and resulted in two public engagement activities (two art exhibitions). The findings that inform the discussion are taken from nine semi-structured interviews, three focus groups including a professionally drawn illustration of two of these focus groups, and sixty-three research participant's “drawings” as well as informal conversations with eight stakeholders. The findings concern transgender and non-binary people's feelings of un/safety in the public spaces of an indoor swimming pool and the accompanying display of their embodied self. These two elements of un/safety—spatiality and embodiment—are critically discussed in relation to physical activity and in/equality. In this way, the work contributes to sustained University-LGBT community links and provides possibility for evidenced-based intervention to address inequality.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fsoc.2020.00064/fulltransgendernon-binaryinequalityswimmingin-door blue space |
| spellingShingle | Jayne Caudwell Transgender and Non-binary Swimming in the UK: Indoor Public Pool Spaces and Un/Safety Frontiers in Sociology transgender non-binary inequality swimming in-door blue space |
| title | Transgender and Non-binary Swimming in the UK: Indoor Public Pool Spaces and Un/Safety |
| title_full | Transgender and Non-binary Swimming in the UK: Indoor Public Pool Spaces and Un/Safety |
| title_fullStr | Transgender and Non-binary Swimming in the UK: Indoor Public Pool Spaces and Un/Safety |
| title_full_unstemmed | Transgender and Non-binary Swimming in the UK: Indoor Public Pool Spaces and Un/Safety |
| title_short | Transgender and Non-binary Swimming in the UK: Indoor Public Pool Spaces and Un/Safety |
| title_sort | transgender and non binary swimming in the uk indoor public pool spaces and un safety |
| topic | transgender non-binary inequality swimming in-door blue space |
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