"Trans, non-binary and gender diverse young people should not be forced to choose between who they are and playing the sport they love".

People please. too many Black Caribbean people have Scottish surnames for this to be news to you

Our #CallforSpeakers & contributors is also open for our October Conference. We are looking for good practice, research, workshops and motivational topics about #DiverseSport. To respond and show interest please submit via link below! @DrGemmaWitcomb @DillonLandi @SonjaErikainen

Thanks Arts and Humanities Research Council for funding our work on ‘Targeting Therapies: Exploring the Cultural and Normative Dimensions of 'Targeted' Approaches to Biomedicine and Public Health’! Really excited to be collaborating with CoIs Susi Geiger, @SonjaErikainen and Ilaria Galasso! #medhums #STS

I am really so excited! What an opportunity to build and consolidate a fabulous international research network on important #medhums issues while working with Susi Geiger and the marvelous @SonjaErikainen and Martyn Pickersgill!

One of the scenarios being thrown out to the group - this workshop has been a bunch of problem solving exercises essentially where the room is given a scenario, and they have to come up with possible solutions. #DiverseSport

Amazing art LEAP Sports Scotland #DiverseSport conference to document the insightful and engaging conversations about inclusive sports that are going on. What a great day💪🏽👏🏽

Exciting new PhD project alert! Please circulate this call for participants around your networks. @SSPLeeds @CIGSLeeds @CDSLeeds @FLAG_UoL @CERSLeeds1

Fifth panel "Towards a Holistic Approach of Policy-making, Practice & Research in Sport" with sport litigator Carlos Sayao, Thays Prado of Centre for Sport & Human Rights, Belén Lara of IAWSN, Piara Powar of Fare, and Francine Hetherington Raveney of Council of Europe Sport, moderated by S Erikainen of University of Aberdeen

My native country finally passed a new law ending a human rights violating forced sterilisation requirement as condition for gender recognition and enabling self identification for trans people. The law is far from perfect but I’m so relieved euronews.com/2023/02/01/fin…

New open access article “Beyond the hype: ‘acceptable futures’ for AI and robotic technologies in healthcare” coauthors S Erikainen Sarah Chan @Sarah_C_Burley funded by Wellcome Link: link.springer.com/article/10.100… #AI #Robots #Health #Care #ResponsibleInnovation Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society (CBSS)

Please join us (Martyn Pickersgill Ilaria Galasso S Erikainen and the MISFIRES-ERC crew) in Dublin on May 2-3!

Check out our new BioSocieties article on hormonal emplotment! We show that hormones remain vital protagonists in the contemporary constitution of bodies, affects, selves, environments and politics. S Erikainen Andrea Ford Lisa Raeder link.springer.com/article/10.105…