Fair Game - by Ellie Roscher & Anna Baeth (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Forward by Chris Mosier

Fair Game offers an insightful, timely examination of the ongoing battle for equality in athletics. As LGBTQ athletes break barriers in the Olympics, transgender athletes still face harsh restrictions in many areas. With twenty-four states passing anti-trans sports legislation in the last two years, nearly half of Americans live under laws that restrict or ban transgender individuals from participating in sports. Fair Game explores why taking the next step and increasing the acceptance of trans athletes is important not only for everyone with an Olympic dream but also everyone whose kids just want to join the town soccer league.

Fair Game explores the role of sports in the lives of transgender youth and adults, offering a comprehensive, nuanced, and multivoiced picture of the transgender athletic experience. Through a woven collection of the narratives from a marginalized population, Fair Game examines the patterns of fear and gender stereotypes that undergird anti-trans legislation and offers helpful historical and political context about sex segregation in sports and how bodies (including trans bodies) work in sports.

Timely, accessible, inspiring, and rigorous, Fair Game presents a sports landscape beyond our current conceptions, a world changed by unrestricted and joyful movement in sports.

About the Author

Ellie Roscher (she/they), is a writer, educator, podcaster, coach, and speaker. She was a two-sport college athlete, is the author of several books and lives in Minneapolis.

Dr. Anna Baeth (she/her) is a critical feminist scholar and a cultural studies practitioner of sport. She is the director of Research at Athlete Ally and lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.