By Advocate Contributors — 2012
Because there are out WNBA players.
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More athletes are reporting mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, psychiatric conditions and eating disorders.
Conversations surrounding eating disorders, body image, and beauty standards are generally centered on the narratives of straight, cisgender* women. However, these conversations often exclude the experiences of many LGBT people who also struggle with body image concerns and disordered eating.
Eating disorders have historically been believed to primarily afflict heterosexual, affluent, cisgender, thin, white women.