iS - interSPORT

Based on this consideration linked to sport organizations’ lack of awareness and capacity to deal with intersex people in sports, the present project proposal’s general objective is to raise awareness on intersex-related issues in the field of sports, by bringing together the key staff of five European sport/youth organizations in order to foster awareness-raising, mutual learning, cooperation and exchange of good practices in the field of intervention. As such, the project’s specific objectives are to i. raise awareness on intersex-related issues in the field of sports through the study of available data and existing policies, the exchange of good practices with other sport/youth organizations and the direct dialogue with the target groups; ii. increase coaches’/trainers’/youth workers’ socio-professional skills in order to enable them to offer higher quality services and to better address intersex people’s needs through sports; iii. promote the exchange of good practices at the EU level and create transnational efforts in order to raise other sport organizations’ awareness as well as to promote continued partnerships on the theme of intervention. We are aware that to reach our GOAL we need to involve as many people as possible. We have defined a strategy of active involvement of heterogeneous stakeholders. It will be important to involve other European and national networks with the same mission of this project. Gaycs is a member of the European Gay & Lesbian Sport Federation and during their meetings we will disseminate the results of this project to expand the number of potential beneficiaries. We will also implement a specific advocay campaign with institutional stakeholders (national and European) to involve policy makers.