At least 87 out athletes will compete this year — more than double the 40 out players who competed in the last World Cup in 2019.
who competed in the men’s World Cup last November. Cyd Zeigler, the founder of Outsports and a longtime LGBTQ advocate, said that’s in part because there are simply more queer women playing elite-level soccer than there are queer men doing the same.
“This is true across basketball, ice hockey and most every other sport,” Zeigler said in a statement to NBC News. “The WNBA has over 25% out women. That higher presence of out athletes naturally creates an environment where more women feel comfortable being out. As we say at Outsports, Courage Is Contagious.”
Openly LGBTQ Women’s World Cup players also make up a much larger proportion of all players at this year’s World Cup compared to the athletes who competed in the most recent winter and summer Olympic Games. According to Outsports, at least
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