This course will examine historical and contemporary conceptions of gender/s and sexualities in sport and physical culture, paying attention to how gender normativities enable and constrain people’s sense of belonging. Discourses, representations and practices of masculinity, femininity, hetero-and-homo normativity, homophobia and transphobia are interrogated using feminist, post-colonial, anti-oppression and intersectional lenses (e.g., how gender and sexuality intersect with race, colonialism, class, and disability). Drawing from key critical literatures, film/documentaries, and policy, we consider the ways in which gender/s and sexualities have been governed in sports and physical culture, and how differential and violent power relations continue to shape people’s understanding of, and attitudes towards, gender-non-conforming bodies, limiting what is possible, specifically for 2SLGBTQI+ and communities. We will discuss how social justice, caring and ethical relations are required in sports and physical culture to create spaces where a multiplicity of gender and sexuality identifications are protected, allowed to feel safe, and flourish.