The Issue Of Homosexual Athletes

Evidence: “The logic seems to be that football is a domain of hyper-masculinity, a physical and psychological space where alpha male do battle. A gay men can’t be alphas because they are fragile and frighten and weak, which is to say feminine.” (p 89)

Everyone has a gender. It is something we are born into, and has an impact on every aspect of our lives. It affects how we walk, talk, and act on a daily basis. What truly is gender though? Gender is what defines many facets of our culture, and differentiates the roles people take on as men or women. Today, most countries define gender as the genetic and biological traits we are born with. However, what if someone felt they were supposed to be the opposite gender of the one they were born into? That is precisely the feeling that transgenders have from a young age. The feeling of not belonging in their own body and wanting to be someone else. To make things even harder, what if they were also an athlete? Not only would they feel like they don 't belong in their own body, but the sports they want to play or already play would be affected. With that, this paper will look at and discuss eligibility in sports, equality in the locker room, and self worth both on and off the field for transgender athletes.

fear of going home alone after play in the night deter them from participating. In situations where participants emigrate from countries where women are under constant attack in the night, they (participants or/and family members) still harbor fear of being attacked in the night although the participants say they are aware it is a safer environment for women in Calgary. Fear is due to past experience. For example, a women walking alone in the night is likely to be attacked in certain parts of the world. In this case, people are dressed as “bacha posh” (women are dressed as men) to avoid attacks. Such participants said since coming to Calgary, the disguise has been taken off so they feel exposed. Participants in situations like these will only

Rhetorical Analysis Essay: Gay Culverhouse Concussions have become a high priority head injury at all levels of football, but is being spotlighted on the National Football League (NFL) and a well-known issue among retired players who are now suffering the long-term effects of their years as football players. Today when we see a famous football player our attention is on the six figure contracts, million dollar houses, and fast cars. We don’t see the enormous pressure these players are put under and the hardships they put their bodies through every day so their families are taken care of for the rest of their lives. Gay Culverhouse, the former owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, has become an activist for former players through her book, Throwaway Players: The Concussion Crisis: From Pee Wee Football to the NFL. The book is filled with emotionally pulling stories and tons of statistics.

On April 15th 1947, Jack Roosevelt Robinson played his first game for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Jackie, went without a hit in a game which would have been noted only in sports almanacs were it not for the color of his skin. At Ebbet's Field that day, Robinson broke baseball's “color barrier.” The integration of Black athletes into White mainstream sports had begun. Robinson endured a variety of slanderous yells, racial epithets and even hurled objects. The fact that African Americans would be discriminated against in sports was never more apparent. Today, that same vitriol manifests itself in various forms of discrimination. Rhetorical forms of discrimination are just as damaging today as outright bigotry was then. Though rhetorical

A singular and limited view of masculinity has hijacked professional sports, the NFL especially, and has led to a culture where many players cannot tell

Pro athletes have not gone too far because the have their own right to claim their opinion. According to the author, Tim Windel, “Chip Kelly, Kaepernick’s coach, said that his quarterback's decision was ‘his right as a citizen.’” Everyone has the first amendment right to express their own views. As a United States citizen we have been given our own right to speak for ourselves. And have our own point of view. In conclusion, Pro athletes have their own right to speak their opinion.

Gay athletes have been deprived of jobs and opportunities ever since professional sports have been enacted. Some of these players are talented enough to play at the pro level, but the owners and commissioners have brought politics into the sports we love. Why is playing with gay athletes frowned upon? Even from a young age, boys are taught that playing sports with girls somehow makes you less of a man. These players have proven that they compete by playing at the collegiate level and they dominate. When it comes to draft day, nobody wants to be the team with the gay guy on their team. So, professional sports, why do you continue to judge players on their sexual orientation, rather than physical

Out of the many hundreds of National Football League (NFL) football players experiencing or have achieved successful careers, only one is openly gay, which has led him on a journey to acceptance. If drafted, Michael Sam, an All-American defensive end will be the first gay NFL player to disclose his homosexuality publicly (Russo). Sam’s decision to come out has led to a debate of whether or not he will be accepted in the NFL. By doing so, he now faces the possibility of being taunted by his opponents and not being tolerated by his teammates. Additionally, Sam could be overlooked by some NFL team general managers due to the dissention it could cause among their players. Despite these concerns, some sports analysts say Michael Sam has nothing to fear. They believe that as long as Sam benefits the team on the field, he will be accepted by his teammates and other players as well.

Over the years in America life has tremendously changed in this society as homosexuality is becoming a more controversial topic to many . In this past decade, this topic has sprung to the top of religious and political debates . Homosexuality has led to a debate of social matter, however when it comes to laws to protect homosexuals' rights, and equal right that other Americans have society turns its nose up in disgust. The individuals of today fear a world of change and are stuck in their "old ways". I'm here to say that it is time for a change. The lesbians, gays, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community should have the same rights as other American.

Throughout the mid-twentieth century, during both World War II (WWII) and the Red Scare, homosexuals in America continuously endured oppressive government policies and practices, although, the severity of oppression faced in the midst of WWII was considerably less due to the abnormal circumstances and demands of wartime. Despite the expanding antihomosexual policies and procedures of the military, many homosexuals only had to overcome a few minor obstacles when it came to getting in, fitting in, and staying in throughout the war. An array of factors such as military draft quotas, atypical living situations, thoughts of the greater good, and life or death situations often led psychiatric examiners, comrades, and military officials alike to overlook

There is not more to it. Professional athletes go into the game with only one objective, to win. If the NFL were to be eradicated, I am more than sure that everybody would feel unbalanced. It is a cultural norm, it is something that families do together on Sunday’s. The importance of the game has grown over the years, it brings people together, but it can also drive people apart. High school athletes will even get a full ride scholarship due to their athletic ability, which is ridiculous. So, if sports were to ever be eradicated the only way to come about it would be to make our society aware of what is really important, and why we should not glamorize the sport

Throughout history, there have been many cases of injustice and discrimination both around the world and in the United States specifically. There has been oppression of and discrimination against differing ethnic groups, women, and now, individuals with a different sexual orientation than what can be seen as normal. While the rights of these groups have improved significantly, discrimination still occurs. However, discrimination against them is still less rampant than the discrimination against people who identify as homosexuals and other similar sexual orientations. Since we, as a society, have made extensive leaps and bounds regarding similar social issues, we can and must make similar strides regarding societal views of sexual orientation.

A social problem is normally a term used to describe problems with a particular area or group of people in the world. Social problems often involve problems that affect real life. It also affects how people react to certain situations. While differences in racial/ethnic prejudices have been explored extensively in past literature (e.g. Bobo and Zubrinksy’s 1996, study of differential prejudices directed toward Hispanic and Black individuals), little U.S. research has investigated how attitudes toward lesbians, gays, bisexual men, bisexual women, and male-to-female (MtF) and female-to-male (FtM) transgender (henceforth “LGBT”) may differ ( Marcus, 2015).