While researching beauty standards in sports, I came across an article. Human Health and Services(1997) proved that “Exercise and sport participation can enhance mental health by offering adolescent girls positive feelings about body image, improved self-esteem, tangible experiences of competency and success, and increased self-confidence. It can also help with academic achievement.” This lead me to wonder how transgenders are affected by sports and if it helps their self esteem at all. This is when and where the question of if transgenders have an unfair advantage in sports?
There are a lot of interesting things I found from researching the advantages and disadvantages of transgender people participating in sports. After looking at one or two articles the information all seemed the same, and started to bore me. I began to start to get distracted and lose interest from the repetitive opinions and information. This lead me to want to know about transgender people's experiences in sports and the struggles they went through. I started to learn about how they were treated unfairly and discriminated against. This intrigued me to learn more about other experiences of the LGBTQ community in sports. This is where I arose to want to know the experience of LGBTQ athletes. …show more content…
American Broadcasting Company(October 30) explained
The young man from Hawaii became the best defensive lineman in the Pacific-10 Conference at Oregon State, and was voted to the NFL's all-rookie team in 1991, when he played for the Green Bay Packers. But the pressure it brought on him led him to drink too much, to become deeply depressed and to even consider suicide.It wasn't because of his success. It was because of his secret: Tuaolo is
There are a lot of interesting things I found from researching the advantages and disadvantages of transgender people participating in sports. After looking at one or two articles the information all seemed the same, and started to bore me. I began to start to get distracted and lose interest from the repetitive opinions and information. This lead me to want to know about transgender people's experiences in sports and the struggles they went through. I started to learn about how they were treated unfairly and discriminated against. This intrigued me to learn more about other experiences of the LGBTQ community in sports. This is where I arose to want to know the experience of LGBTQ athletes. …show more content…
American Broadcasting Company(October 30) explained
The young man from Hawaii became the best defensive lineman in the Pacific-10 Conference at Oregon State, and was voted to the NFL's all-rookie team in 1991, when he played for the Green Bay Packers. But the pressure it brought on him led him to drink too much, to become deeply depressed and to even consider suicide.It wasn't because of his success. It was because of his secret: Tuaolo is