WSRO project partners at Paris 2024 Olympics

Partners of the European Erasmus+ project “LBTI women in Sport - Research & Outcomes” (WSRO) were present from 5-10 August at the Olympics 2024 in Paris conducting a survey to understand the situation of women in sport across Europe.

We conducted surveys at several sites in Paris including the Rosa Bonheur sur Seine which hosted the Pride House, ELLES Bar, Les Aimant·e·s and La Mutinerie where we talked with many LBTI women and collected an amazing number of responses. A big thank you to all the hosts for welcoming us! We were also present during the ¼ final football match USA vs Japan at Parc des Princes as well as the Parc des Champions.

The survey targets all women - lesbian, bisexual, trans, intersex, heterosexual, queer, demigender and anyone who self-defines as a woman – and we hope to gather a significant number of responses in the next 12 months, which will serve for further awareness raising campaigns to promote visibility, equality, and inclusion.

The survey is completely anonymous and confidential and takes only 10 minutes to complete, and we’d really appreciate your participation. You can also take part remotely by clicking HERE
Further information about this important European survey on women in sport can be found HERE

WSRO : LBTI WOMEN IN SPORT

ABOUT THE PROJECT

The overall objective of the project WSRO LBTI+ Women in Sport: Research & Outcomes is to start creating research data to reflect the situation regarding participation and visibility of LBTI+ women in sport, as individuals, and through their participation in mainstream and in LGTBIQ+ sports organisations, promoting equality and European values in and through sport by highlighting the needs, barriers, and challenges that they are presented with. While there is a certain focus on addressing homophobia in sport, discrimination, and violence against LBTI+ women is left largely unaddressed.

The project consortium comprises 4 organisations including Valencia University, recognised for its research into LGBTQI+ and gender equality issues, 2 local grassroots sport clubs from France and Germany and EGLSF, who represent LGBTQI+ in Europe. All organisations are dedicated to inclusion and diversity, and gender equality issues, recognise the distant lack of research available on the participation and visibility of LBTI+ women in sport and are eager to take steps to remedy this with this project by conducting qualitative and quantitively research.

The research report resulting from this project will offer the European sports community valuable insight into how to make both LGBTQI+ and mainstream clubs and sport organisations more diverse, welcoming and sustainable by understanding how they can address LBTI women with true offers of participation and engagement. And by taking their lived experiences and needs into consideration here is a chance of a real offer to LBTI women for a pathway to sport participation and leadership, as well as the fulfilment of a European mandate to address barriers to participation to a HealthyLifestyle4All.