Introduction

The games had taken an extraordinary jump in most recent 20 years. Innovation proved as an aid, which upgraded the presentation level through improved gear and improved healthful items. This has demonstrated the improvement of the social perspectives, and laws influencing sexuality has risen the quantity of instances of transsexual competitors in sports. The support of the transsexual is perhaps the most recent test for the game’s overseeing gathering around the world. The significant issue for a long time was separation of sex in the games meet. The conventional trans-sexual orientation standards were built up in the space of the games. The transsexual and transexual individuals’ investment in the games is the questionable matter as per their sex character. Trans ladies contending in women’s games for the most part centers around physiological characteristics, for example, stature and weight or execution measurements like speed and strength. The trans competitors contend with competitors of a similar doled out sex upon entering the world and requires sex check tests to be directed. On May 27th, 2004, International Olympic Committee had taken the disputable choice on support of transgender parts in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The transgender people should meet three necessities to take part in the occasion:

1. Accomplishment of Surgical anatomical changes, includes outside genitalia organ changes like gonadectomy
2. Authorized acknowledgment of appointed sex by the right authority
3. Sufficiently long and verifiable administration of secretion medical aid acceptablefor the for the assigned sex to reduce gender-related advantage within the sports event.

Historical Background of Transgender Athletes

In 2003, International Olympic Committee (IOC) had developed new strategies for the participation of athlete’s sex reassignment surgery. It was not until 2004 that International Olympic Committee (IOC) allowed transgender people to participate in the Olympics. The committee had amended new guidelines for gender recognition and it is difficult for the countries where gender recognition is illegal. Therefore, healthy people’s had require to undergone with surgery which is incompatible with the new legislation and old legislation.  In October 2019, the World Athletics Association (WAA) changed the testosterone limit for transgender athletes and set limit from 10nmol/L to 5nmol/L to make it consistent with DSD (Intersex) regulations.

Renee Richards, the high-profile transgender athlete and famous for her excellent skills in the tennis. She had undergone the gender reassessment therapy in 1975 and participated in the women’s tournament. The truth of the gender of the player had resulted in a large-scale protest. United States Tennis Association and Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) members had withdrawn their support. The above-mentioned associations had introduced the Barr Body Test, which helps in identifying the player’s sex chromosomes. The renowned player Renee Richards was banned from the US open and had also refused to take the test. Renee Richards filled a lawsuit claiming that her civil rights were violated. The New York Supreme Court declared that, the Barr Body Test would remain a sole determinant of sex and it is grossly unfairand ruled Richards legally female.

How a Trans-Gender person maintains their fitness in the Male and Female category of sports?

The competition of male and female categories would raise the various issues when a transgenders person participates in the same event:

1. It is generally accepted that prior to the puberty there is little difference between the sexes, and mixed sex sports is often permitted.
2. After the onset of puberty, however, the physical advantage enjoyed by men raises fairness and safety concern in relation to the participation of trans gender in line with their gender identity[i].

SUGGESTIONS

1. Is Physical Accommodation provided by the Sport’s Governing Authority with presence of Trans-Gender Athletes Impartial and Appropriate?

The Sport’s Governing Body should accommodate transgender athletes to ensure access of locker rooms, showers and toilet facilities appropriateintended for the gender identity. The accommodationwould be made with the ease and privacy of all athletes. The transgender athletes should access thesefacilities available to other athlete of the gender which they identify. Neutral gender dress codes and recognition of preferred gendered pronoun and names of transgendered athletes are also an important aspect of respect and fair treatment.

• Sport’s Governing Body should educate their members about the rights of transgender athletes

The Sport’s governing body should educate their members and the individual coaches, athletes, administrators and other stakeholders about transgender athletes and their right to equal sports participation. Educational efforts should be structured in such a way that, they provide an understanding of transgender athletes and how they should accommodateso that they can protect the rights of all athletes and the transgender athletes to participate in a fair and respectful environment.

• There should be Sound School Policies on Transgender Athletes

Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs should frametheir policies addressing the following objectives:

1. There should be judiciousstandards for determining an athlete’s eligibility to compete that are based on up-to-date expert legal and medical knowledge about the effects of gender transition on athlete’s performance.
2. Be custom-made to the specific court context, age of the athletes and age when the athletes transition.
3. The organization should reserve competitive equity among all participants in sports in which competition is separate from men and women[ii].

CONCLUSION It has been determined that, the popularity of transgender athletes hada negative experience on competitive sports and sports-related physical activities. The accessibility of the sports related physical activities needs to be improved. The competitive sports athletic benefit transgender athletes are perceived to have appear to have been overinterpreted by many sports’ organization around the world, which had a negative effect on the population. The secondary and imprecise physiological evidence is separated, it is only transgender female individuals who are perceived to potentially have an advantage as a result of androgenic hormones[iii]. The transgender athletes are just like anordinary human being with feeling, passions and dreams. They have every right to do things anordinary person does and be treated as fairly.

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[i]Liz Riley, The Participation of Trans Athletes in Sports- A Transformation in Approach? (February 05, 2016) Law in Sports; Available: https://www.lawinsport.com/topics/item/the-participation-of-trans-athletes-in-sport-a-transformation-in-approach

[ii] Women Sports Foundation, The participation of Transgender Athletes in Sports; Available on: https://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/participation-of-transgender-athletes-in-womens-sports-the-foundation-position.pdf