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Including transgender and intersex people in sport. SGS international training in Seville

The SGS project (Sport for all genders and sexualities) reached one of its main milestones this week by bringing together from Sept 30 to October 3 in Seville trainers and experts from the UK, Austria, Italy and Spain to address one among the most discussed LGBTQIA+ topics of the moment: transgender, non-binary and intersex people’s participation in sport.  Participants thoroughly analysed the current scenario, from the new guidelines of the Olympic Committee to the WHO removing gender dysphoria from the list of mental illnesses. Although some international federations are currently banning transgender women from competing in [...]

2025-04-21T17:36:26+02:00Friday, October 6th, 2023 @ 17:24|Categories: 2023, News|Tags: , , |0 Comments

Rising Together: Open your Sport to all genders and sexualities!

Scenario The EU Project SGS - Sport for all Genders and Sexualities has launched the Raising Together Campaign for the EU week of Sport 2023 In the modern and highly developed 21st century it's still necessary to talk about Sport for all Genders. European sports continue to be heavily influenced by traditional concepts of gender roles, which categorize individuals strictly as either "men" or "women," reinforcing a dominant binary and masculine perspective. This prevailing narrative within sports inevitably leads to the marginalization and unfair treatment of various groups, including women and girls (resulting in sexism), transgender [...]

2023-09-27T22:12:49+02:00Wednesday, September 27th, 2023 @ 22:12|Categories: 2023, News|Tags: |0 Comments

+PLUSS hybrid partnership meeting

The EuroGames Bern 2023 was the opportunity for us to host on July 27th the 1st hybrid partnership meeting of the project +PLUSS “LGBTQI+ Policy and Leadership in Sport and Society”, It was the project's first opportunity to meet face-to-face, with most partner representatives attending in person, while others connected online.   With this meeting, the preparation phase of the project was completed, as the first formal outputs of the project were discussed and approved, such as the communication plan, the visual elements and the reporting system, among others. Planning for upcoming activities and [...]

2023-08-10T17:14:47+02:00Thursday, August 10th, 2023 @ 17:14|Categories: 2023, News|0 Comments

New EGLSF logo

We are very excited to present the new EGLSF logo! EGLSF was founded over 30 years ago and the logo has been with us since then. A different time, when our sole focus was the EuroGames event and our community centered on gay and lesbian participation. As times have changed, so has our community, and the EGLSF focus has diversified along with the visibility in our community.  While EuroGames is still central to ELGSF commitment to the LGBTQI sporting community, we have taken on a larger advocacy role. We believe that the new [...]

2023-06-29T18:37:28+02:00Thursday, June 29th, 2023 @ 18:19|Categories: 2023, News|Tags: |0 Comments

+PLUSS Kickoff

+PLUSS, the new Erasmus+ project led by EGLSF, was recently launched through an online kick-off meeting on June 12, 2023 aiming to promote inclusion and combat discrimination in European grassroots sport. The project primarily focuses in enhancing the inclusion and participation of athletes with diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, and sex characteristics, and it brings together European partners such as the German Sport University of Koln, the International Centre of Ethic in Sports and 6 LGBTQI+ sport clubs (the Croatian “Queer Sport Split”, the [...]

2024-04-09T16:19:02+02:00Tuesday, June 27th, 2023 @ 14:13|Categories: 2023, News|Tags: , |0 Comments
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