Parenting Gay, Lesbian or Transgender Athletes Center

An essential part of the MomsTeam mission is to make youth sports as inclusive as possible. It is just as important for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth to have the opportunity to participate in sports safely without fear as other athletes. LGBT athletes and their parents face enormous and unique challenges and need the support of the entire youth sports community in facing them.

Our goal will be to provide comprehensive information on parenting the LGBT athlete. But to do that, we are going to need your help. If you are parent of a gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender athlete, or one who is in the process of confronting their sexual orientation or gender identity, we hope you will share what you have learned with other MomsTeam parents. Please consider writing a blog, contributing an article, posting on and/or hosting a Forum, or becoming our MomsTeam expert on parenting the LBGT athlete. If you know of someone who you think has knowledge to share, ask him or her to join or contact us. Together we can make MomsTeam and youth sports the inclusive places they both should be!

-Brooke de Lench
MomsTeam Founder

Featured Articles

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Sexual Orientation In Sports: Are All Men Straight, And All Women Gay? [5]

Despite progress in women's and LGBT rights, the way the mainstream media portrays non-conforming or sexually ambiguous athletes has not changed much in three decades, argues a leading expert on gender in sport, citing the treatment of Olympic athletes Caster Semenya (left) and Johnnie Weir.

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Helping Your Daughter Cope With Being Lesbian In Sports [6]

As a parent of a lesbian tween or teen, one of the things you will have naturally have to worry about is how your tween or teen daughter is going to do socially, not just at school and in general, but in extracurricular activities in particular, such as team sports.

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Family rejection of LGB children linked to poor health in early adulthood [7]

For the first time, researchers have established a clear link between family rejection of lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) adolescents and negative health outcomes in early adulthood. The study, published in the January2009 issue of Pediatrics, shows that negative parental behaviors toward LGB children dramatically compromises their health.

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Are Sports A Safe Place for LGBT Athletes? [8]

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