The May 2008 issue of Chatelaine Magazine highlighted 80 Women to Watch. Eight women from sport were selected to the nationwide list of heroes, innovators and visionaries: Meghan Agosta (Ice Hockey); Deirdre Dionne (Freestyle Skiing); Cathy Harris (Event Planning); Carol Huynh (Wrestling); Claudia Larouche (Sports Journalism); Jujie Luan (Fencing); Kalyna Roberge (Short Track); Kristen Worley (Cycling). (These women can be found on pages 9 and 10 of the PDF)
Published – May 2008
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When an international court ruled Friday that a double-amputee sprinter from South Africa was eligible to compete in this summer’s Olympic Games in Beijing, the stage was set for disabled athletes to meet their own trailblazer.
The watershed ruling made the runner Oscar Pistorius, the first amputee to successfully challenge the notion that his carbon-fiber prosthetics gave him an unfair advantage and assured his right to race against able-bodied athletes in the Olympics, should he qualify. Previously barred from competing in such races by track and field’s world governing body, Pistorius will continue to stoke the debate over the competitive issues created by evolving technology in sports.
Published – May 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/17/sports/olympics/17runner.html
Earlier this quarter Luka Carfagna and a group of friends showed up at Stagg Field for a kickoff IM men’s soccer match. But after arriving at the stadium, student IM representatives told Carfagna t…
Earlier this quarter Luka Carfagna and a group of friends showed up at Stagg Field for a kickoff IM men’s soccer match. But after arriving at the stadium, student IM representatives told Carfagna that he couldn’t participate on the all-male team because Carfagna, who identifies as transgender, looked biologically female. When Carfagna protested, two of the students referees turned around and snickered.
“They said no girls allowed. I said I identified as transgender and they just looked at me, like ‘What is that?’” Carfagna recalled.
“You have to pick a gender if you’re going to play. I wasn’t able to play. I will not be able to play under my gender of choice.”
Carfagna, a graduate student in a one-year masters program, is a female-to-male transgender student who identifies as genderqueer—a term Carfagna believes captures the transgressive and transformative nature of his sexual identity. For those like Carfagna who describe themselves as genderqueer, the term enables identities that lie within, between, and beyond the male-female gender binary. Carfagna recently began using his preferred name “Luka” and masculine pronouns among close friends, but still introduces himself as Lindsey in class and in wider social circles.
Published – June 2008
http://www.chicagomaroon.com/2008/5/13/transgender-students-navigate-campus-attitudes-and-resources
