According to the IOC charter everyone has a basic fundamental human right to participate in sport on a competitive basis no matter their race, age or gender.
Miller, who worked recently with the Human Rights Law centre to advocate for the successful removal of the Forced Divorce law’s for transgender people to amend their birth certificates.
She continued with her tireless effort to educate and advocate for full equal rights for all transgender people in society and on the sporting fields in Australia.
Even though cisgender women aren’t being tested in the same fashion as trans women when it comes to the AFL, all women’s bodies are still being sexualised and policed on the sporting fields in Australia.
Men are encouraged to be strong and masculine and if a woman, trans or not, displays these characteristics and traits, even if they have no control over their bodies, they are to be derided, while male athletes are revered and put on a pedestal by an adoring public.
One just has to look at the recent cartoons mocking Amelie Mauresmo about her perceived masculine appearance and the racial stereotyping of the strong and outspoken Serena Williams by people who aren’t even aware of their socially constructed privilege due to their being born white, male and heterosexual.
One person who does get it, is renowned author JK Rowling.
Serena Williams and the epidemic of policing black women’s anger https://t.co/KXnQbNCqre
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) September 12, 2018
The final word goes to Miller and the former correctional officer and inaugural manager of the Ivanhoe Warrakirri centre who said, “AFL players on Wacky Wednesday and heterosexual male tv hosts dressing-up as women for laughs is suggesting there’s something wrong with people who are transgender.
“For us, it’s not about putting on a dress and who we are is very innate; we were born this way and it’s immutable."
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