• ensuring that all changerooms have sanitary
bins.
These universal design suggestions can make
facilities welcoming and inclusive of everyone.
When new facilities are built, or existing facilities
are being upgraded, there is an opportunity to
make these inclusive by:
• creating private spaces so that people can
change, shower and use the toilet safely and
comfortably
• providing a gender-neutral space where
possible, without co-opting accessible toilets
or family rooms.
Sporting organisations that are in the process of,
or considering, changing facilities also have an
opportunity to seek out facilities that are inclusively
designed.
Sporting organisations could also consider working
with local schools, local governments and other
community-sport infrastructure providers to access
facilities which have been designed to be inclusive.90
Case study
How innovative solutions can foster inclusion
Kim identifies as non-binary. Kim’s pronouns are they/them/their. Kim and a group of Kim’s friends have
signed up to a mixed, social basketball competition. The basketball court complex that hosts the competition
has two bathrooms, one marked ‘men’ and one ’women’. The men’s bathroom has a wall of urinals and one
cubicle, which is always out of order. Kim does not feel comfortable using the women’s bathrooms because
Kim is usually stared at or explicitly told that they should not be there.
For the first few weeks, Kim tried to avoid drinking water before and during the game to avoid needing to use
the bathroom. Eventually, one of Kim’s teammates realised what was happening and spoke to the manager of
the court complex.
The sporting organisation did not have the resources to refurbish the bathrooms, but changed the signage to
make them both unisex.
5.6 Collecting and using personal
information
Concerns about providing personal information can
prevent transgender and gender diverse people
from engaging in sport. Personal information
should only be collected with a player’s consent,
and in the case of children, with parental consent.
Sporting organisations can address this by
implementing structures and safeguards regarding
the collection and use of personal information,
particularly where it relates to name and gender
(for example, password-protected databases).
See section 4.9(b) for an overview of privacy law.
Registering to participate in a sport generally
requires an individual to provide personal
information. This information might include a birth
certificate or driver’s licence to verify age, name, or
gender.
The collection of personal information by sporting
organisations can create additional difficulties for
transgender and gender diverse people because of:
• differences between a person’s affirmed
gender and the sex or gender recorded on
their identity documents91
• differences between a person’s preferred
name and their name as it appears on their
identity documents
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