Teresa, do you mind if I jump in before we go to you?
In our study.... I would feel uncomfortable speaking beyond our study, because I'm in the faculty of education; I'm not a sports sociologist. A lot of my recommendations are educational.
What we saw in our study was discussions of men and boys leaving elite-level sports because they felt the space was not safe for them. When we look at which brand of masculinity is privileged in sport, you are eliminating men who express femininities.
When you think about a gender binary, you realize there's such an assumption of the conflation of sex and gender in our society. We really need to push back at that and look at the ways in which these spaces are unsafe for males who express femininities. Even our co-researcher speaks about the fact that his son finds the locker room so uncomfortable because it is so loud. He does not know where there is a space for him.
Certainly beyond our research, other people would have things to say, but in our research it was how the spaces were not conducive to varied performance of masculinities.