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A record number of athletes openly identifying as LGBTQ+ are competing in the 2024 Paris Olympics, a massive leap during a competition that organizers have pushed to center around inclusion and diversity.

There are 191 athletes publicly saying they are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer and nonbinary who are participating in the Games, according to Outsports, an organization that compiles a database of openly queer Olympians. The vast majority of the athletes are women.

That number has quashed the previous record of 186 out athletes counted at the COVID-19-delayed Tokyo Olympics held in 2021, and the count is only expected to grow at future Olympics.

“More and more people are coming out,” said Jim Buzinski, co-founder of Outsports. “They realize it’s important to be visible because there’s no other way to get representation.”

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

What percentage of all athletes is that?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

1.7% Roughly. 191/11000, as that was the closest estimate.

As a population the estimate is 5% of people so probability there are almost twice as many athletes who are in the closet then those who are out.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I wonder how many of those are from Africa and the Middle East.

(just kidding, we all know it's zero)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

https://www.outsports.com/2024/7/17/24097560/celebrating-out-lgbtq-athletes-2024-paris-olympics/

The list of out athletes is heavily weighted to parts of the world where being LGBTQ is both legally and culturally accepted. This includes countries in North and South America, Western and Northern Europe and Australia and New Zealand. There are out athletes from 27 of the 206 participating nations (including the Refugee Olympic Team).

The countries with the most out athletes at the Paris Olympics: USA (31), Brazil (30), Australia (22), Germany (13), Spain (12), Great Britain (11), Canada (11) and the Netherlands (10).

There are only three out athletes from Asia that we know of at the time of publication: two boxers from the Philippines and one from Thailand. There are only four athletes from Africa: three South Africans, and one from the Refugee Team, boxer Cindy Ngamba, born in Cameroon and now living in Great Britain. There is only one athlete from any Muslim-dominated country (a Turkish volleyball player), places where being out and gay is often illegal or dangerous, and none from Russia, which has cracked down on LGBTQ rights in the past decade.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

and none from Russia

Isnt russia banned from the olympics?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

I've no idea how stating this is relevant to the conversation

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The moment a single trans athlete wins top 3 in their sport, expect every troll to suddenly become an expert biologist. But they don't actually give a single fuck when trans athletes lose.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I have a very real problem with any guy ever competing in a woman's sport. It's a hard line that should never be crossed. Your biological sex at birth is quite valid, there is no discussion on this topic in the realm of sanity.

This is the line that most sane people also draw, and if you think otherwise you need to get off the Internet.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You're pissing into the wind here. This crowd is heavy with animal fuckers and confused little cunts

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This crowd is heavy with animal fuckers

You got any evidence to back up that ridiculous claim? Because it seems that you're just trying to slander people who disagree with you.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Have you seen how many furry porn channels there are.. Almost every day i block futo fox fucker channels and whatever little cunt is posting cartoon animal porn to it. There's the evidence. Go climb back under your rock

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

there's the evidence

You've made a claim. A claim is not evidence.

Have you seen

No, I have not. Not from my instance, lemmy.world (which is the instance we're talking on) or any others that end up in my feed or even the "All" feed.

Have you tried blocking the one single instance that's probably coming from?

Or even just using your feed?

And I hate to break it to you, but one community on the fediverse is not indicative of "this crowd being heavy" with anyone. If that were the case, all social media, and real life, would be.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Get over yourself you jumped up twat. I don't have to provide you with evidence for anything. I understand how the fediverse works.

There are plenty of fucked up little scrotes on here with weird as fuck fetishes and I dont care to see it in my feed. I already block entire instances, communities and anyone who posts fucking weird porn cartoons or political american shit or any other shit I think is retarded. I dont give a shit whatever sordid shit turns you on. I dont need to know about it. Its not all on one instance, or one user and I'm forever filtering it out..

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Get over yourself you jumped up twat. I don't have to provide you with evidence for anything. I understand how the fediverse works.

Someone sounds upset.

If you make a claim in an attempt to discredit a whole platform of people, don't be surprised when someone asks you to provide evidence.

There are plenty of fucked up little scrotes on here with weird as fuck fetishes and I dont care to see it in my feed

Fun fact: you can add certain communities to your feed and only view those. So either you're not using your own feed, or you've added those communities to it.

I already block entire instances, communities and anyone who posts fucking weird porn cartoons or political american shit or any other shit I think is retarded. I dont give a shit whatever sordid shit turns you on. I dont need to know about it. Its not all on one instance, or one user and I'm forever filtering it out..

Sounds like a problem with the instance you picked then. I do not have this issue, and you clearly haven't heard of an NSFW toggle. That or it doesn't work.

Nobody cares if you don't care about other things on the internet. It does not belong to you, you don't get to go on an angry tirade when there are things you don't like, and you definitely don't get to use it to try and slander people who are completely unrelated to it. Learn to properly curate your feed and move on.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

You're an insufferable patronising pest aren't you. You're confident for someone who is wrong