The social construction of pregnancy emphasizes the mother’s responsibility for the developing fetus. Hence, certain activities, such as participation in competitive sport, are often constructed as inappropriate during pregnancy. While expert opinion tends to stress caution, the diversity of athlete mothers’ experiences challenge these dominant discourses. Less is known about how peers and other stakeholders in sport view the participation of pregnant athletes. Knowledge of such attitudes is essential to understanding the position of women in a specific society and the barriers to their autonomy. Hence, we examined survey responses from different sport stakeholders (N = 540) in Finland. Drawing on relational dialectics theory (Baxter, L. A. (2011). Voicing relationships. Sage.), we used contrapuntal analysis to identify different discourses on the compatibility of pregnancy and sport, and their interplay. Three discourses were identified: an equality discourse, which emphasizes that sport belongs to everyone, and that pregnant people should be accepted and supported in sporting environments; a responsibility discourse, which constructs pregnancy as fragility and sport as potentially dangerous for the athlete and the fetus; and an incompatibility discourse, which constructs pregnancy as a disease and unacceptable in sporting environments. Our analysis shows that medicalized, authoritative knowledge is the master strategy used to keep women out of male social spaces during pregnancy. The findings of our study highlight the ongoing struggle for reproductive justice in a patriarchal world order. To advance women’s position in society and support the autonomy of all individuals, viable professional guidelines and organizational policies must be formulated and applied.

怀孕的社会建构强调母亲对发育中的胎儿的责任。因此，某些活动，例如参加竞技运动，通常被解释为怀孕期间不合适。虽然专家意见倾向于强调谨慎，但运动员母亲经历的多样性挑战了这些主流话语。关于体育界的同龄人和其他利益相关者如何看待怀孕运动员的参与，人们知之甚少。了解这些态度对于理解女性在特定社会中的地位以及她们自主权的障碍至关重要。因此，我们检查了芬兰不同体育利益相关者 （N = 540） 的调查回复。借鉴关系辩证法理论 （Baxter， LA （2011）。为关系发声。Sage.），我们使用对位分析来确定关于怀孕和运动的兼容性以及它们相互作用的不同话语。确定了三种话语：一种是平等话语，强调体育属于每个人，孕妇在运动环境中应该得到接受和支持;一种责任话语，将怀孕构建为脆弱性，将运动构建为对运动员和胎儿的潜在危险;以及一种不相容的话语，它将怀孕构建为一种疾病，在运动环境中是不可接受的。我们的分析表明，医学化的权威知识是用于使女性在怀孕期间远离男性社交空间的主要策略。我们的研究结果突出了在父权制世界秩序中为生殖正义而进行的持续斗争。 为了提高女性的社会地位并支持所有个人的自主性，必须制定和应用可行的专业指导方针和组织政策。