ABSTRACT
In the fall of 2009 Itani came to the University of Toronto to do doctoral research into trans issues in sport, and I am serving as Itani’s doctoral supervisor. Soon after Itani arrived, I received the invitation to contribute some of my earlier research in a narrative form to this book. I have been increasingly drawn toward the potential of collaborative writing based on some inspiring co-authored autobiographies that students had written for my curriculum theory courses. So, quite rapidly, Itani and I decided to collaborate in writing, sharing and discussing our own narratives about gender and transgender in relation to sport and physical education. We began by talking to one another about what gender and trans-ness meant to each of us. This was a valuable, intense and intimate conversation early on in our relationship. Over several months Itani then wrote several versions of [their/his] narrative. It took a while for me to write my narrative, but when I did it came tumbling out of a place in between my memories and fantasies, my body and my language, the lived and imagined stories I tell myself about my gender and sexual identities. This was a process of talking about ourselves, writing our individual narratives separately and then discussing how to bring them together within this text.
