it doesn t make much sense if only masculine presenting individuals can play sports. there are plenty of career kids who may not present as masculine who also deserve access to sports as well. this feels like the connection to the shame conversation we ve been having that part of what happens here is a pushing back of the shame. when you invite in and/or come out, you say you can t shame me with my identity because i own it. that s right. the history of gay politics, excuse me, to think that we went from blackmail, that was with the original i m black and i m gay. he was blackmailed throughout his career as an activist in the civil rights movement. not literally but driven to the edges and asked either put your sexuality away forget out of the center stage. the movement from that, that is the movement. the movement to me, that is at the core of the movement.