Trans embodiment and combat sports: Queer subversion, intimate violence and haptic encounters at the edge of legibility.

跨性别者参与体育运动是一个有争议的领域：新的国际奥委会(2021年)指南建议更多地纳入跨性别者。然而，个别体育机构可以逐一决定是否纳入，允许恢复侵入性测试，这是有害的和排除的做法。这项以实践为基础的研究并没有形成反对跨性别者言论的论据，而是同时使用了表演和体育学科来论证格斗运动(摔跤、拳击)活动对跨性别者的好处。该项目提出，通过格斗运动的亲密暴力和接触，建立新的变身形式，并表达、谈判和不学习性别。

Trans access to sports is a contested area: new IOC (2021) guidelines recommend greater inclusion for trans competitors. However individual sporting bodies can make case by case decisions on inclusion, allowing the reinstating of invasive testing, harmful and excluding practices. Rather than forming an argument in opposition to anti-trans rhetoric, this practice-based research uses both performance and sport disciplines to argue the benefits of combat sports (wrestling, boxing) activities for trans people. This project proposes that new forms of trans embodiment are built and genders expressed, negotiated and unlearnt through the intimate violence and hapticencounters of combat sports.