Ellie Roscher

I am so deeply invested in building a sports world that protects girls and women.

And it's very, very clear to me that trans athletes aren't the problem.

To create a safer sports world for all athletes, we can start with all girls and women.

And that can be as simple as equipment, right?

Like when you see the stats around how long it took us to do any sort of research about menstruation and clothing, bike seats...

I mean, it's just like it's so embarrassing that like we care so little about the body of women that we're just we are just expected to be small men.

It's so embarrassing when we say it out loud.

There's so much work to do.

There's so much work to do.

We talk about locker rooms.

Absolutely.

We need to make locker rooms safer for everybody.

And there's ways to do that.

One of the things I talk about is like inviting folks to just really reflect on their own locker room experience.

I think one of the ways that the moral panic and the fear mongering is working is that a lot of us don't have a positive association with locker rooms.

You know, but again, just like being really clear about why.

Why are locker rooms, why do they feel unsafe?

And what's an actual tangible thing we could do right away to address what's actually the problem, right?

So there's still so much work to do in terms of sexual assault and harassment.

emotional health mental health of athletes I have a friend who's writing her PhD dissertation on feminist coaching and how that doesn't just mean more women coaches it means more coaches being feminist right and like not always using shame and yelling and violence to motivate athletes all athletes