ABSTRACT
This concluding chapter returns to the overarching themes and arguments of the book as a whole, charting continuities and discontinuities in how femaleness has been defined and gender verified in international sports. It shows how defining and regulating binary gender or sex categories based on sex difference is a circular process driven by the unstable and plural nature of sex and gender. The chapter is focused as much on the present and future of gender verification and sex categories in sports as it is focused on the past: rather than constituting an ending point for the making of the female body in sports, it considers on-going debates and developments around gender verification, the possible futures of sex categories in sports, and the future of competitive sports in general.
