Athlete is agender: true stories of LGBTQ+ people in sports

Introduction

A note on pronouns

What is Title IX? And why does it matter?

Sports as confrontation and celebration / Marieke Nijkamp

Finding myself on the ice / A. J. Sass

Landing with pride: my journey to the Olympic podium / Adam Rippon

Get to know Augustus "Gus" Kenworthy: freestyle skier

Hockey is for everyone: / a conversation with Jack Fernandes and Iz Fuerter of the New York City Gay Hockey Association

Get to know Courtney Vandersloot and Allie Quigley: two women, a basketball, and a dream

The visibility of queer women in the WNBA

and what that means to me /

Nicole Melleby

The fundamentals of losing in team sports, and winning oreo blizzards / Erik J. Brown

Get to know Carl Nassib: first out gay active player in the National Football League

Chipper's comeback: growing up twice on the football field over forty years and four quarters / Karleigh Webb

Making waves: confessions of a water fitness prodigy / Isaac Fitzsimons

Get to know Billie Jean King: tennis champion battling the sexes

For the love of the horse, love of a body: horse riding and finding my strength / Katherine Locke

High-jump your heart out / Quince Mountain

The word sailor is agender: competing as just me / em dickson

Skating between genders on my longboard / Vincent Tirado

Get to know Ellia Green: rugby champion, Olympic gold medalist, and transgender activist

Maybe it was a drag: finding myself as a skater by performing as someone else / Karina Manta

My whole life ahead of me: the end of my swimming career / Schuyler Bailar

Get to know Lia Thomas: fighting in the pool, and out of it

Running my heart out / CeCé Telfer

Get to know Megan Rapinoe: professional activist, legendary soccer player, and proud queer woman

Epilogue

About the contributors

How to be a good teammate and ally

What makes you feel strong?

Ten steps to forming a queer athletics alliance or gender and sexuality alliance in your school

Selected sources

Acknowledgments.