Promoting Unity in Diversity Through Integration of LGBTIQ+ Issues at the Borders of Classrooms and Sports Fields

Abstract

Sport without Stereotypes! It is from this motto that this chapter proposes to focus on the way in which cultural spaces that welcome adolescents allow them to practice physical activity for competitive, fun, and/or educational purposes. This chapter has a regard in particular to “transgender and gender nonconforming adolescents” who need specific psychosocial support adapted to understanding the dynamics underlying the emergence of minority sexual orientations among adolescents. This will then be an opportunity to consider that the “person with minority sexual orientations” is the future of sporting humanity when a “with-them-apart” status is assumed by an adolescent and accepted by adults. This is what allows a stereotype to be lived fully and intensely within sports cultures: Be Stronger Together through our differences! Thus, between unity and diversity, the authors of this chapter are interested in the articulations to be valued between the I and the We, between sporting success and self-realization, between a “socially categorized sexuality” and a “singular sexuality assumed.”