An innovative and informative essay that dismantles many of the gender stereotypes deeply rooted in the world of sports.
Corres como una niña. El género y la diversidad LGTBI en el deporte offers a journey through the present and past realities of women and the LGTBI community in sports. A journey full of surprising, incomprehensible, unjust, and sometimes amusing anecdotes, intertwined with top-level interviews and rigorous information in an engaging and fresh analysis that captivates, with complicity, from the very first lines.
In the different chapters of the book, journalist David Guerrero examines the situation of football in Spain as the discipline with the greatest invisibility and verbal violence against non-normative people, points out those countries that do not respect human rights and use sports to cleanse their international image, and recalls the decisive role that the media play in the proper dissemination of diversity.
With an informative style, the author aims to dismantle the deeply rooted gender stereotypes in the world of sports while tracing the unjust and degrading history of women's sports and questioning the false myth of the competitive advantage of trans and intersex women.
To deepen reflection and analysis, the book includes interviews with athletes such as Pau Ribes, a pioneer in synchronized swimming; Alba Palacios, the first federated trans footballer in Spain; Víctor Gutiérrez, player of the Spanish Water Polo Team and openly gay; Sara Peláez, professional basketball referee and openly lesbian; and María José Martínez Patiño, IOC expert and former intersex athlete. The foreword is written by the historic sports journalist Paloma del Río.
