FEATURE: FOSTERING INCLUSION OF LGBTQ COMMUNITY IN SPORT completely out and proud within my so proud of my sexuality, it’s not really MYLES training environment either because something someone can pick on. Like, MURPHY I’d started training with these people at if someone said “sucked in, you have the age of 11, so by the time I was more great pecs” I think I would still take that Myles Murphy is comfortable with my sexuality, I’d spent as a compliment. an Australian six hours a day, six days a week with Physiotherapy these people for years and I felt unable Q: How helpful do you think it Association (APA) to come out to them because it felt like would be in creating a better titled sport I had been deceiving them for years and physiotherapist I didn’t want to admit that. So I felt environment for LGBTQ athletes at the Western very isolated within my squad. if sporting organisations had Australian Cricket explicit anti-discrimination Association (WACA) looking after the Q: Have you ever had derogatorypolicies and resources on thePerth Scorchers WBBL and Western or offensive comments from kinds of support available for Fury state teams. Myles is also a PhD candidate at The University of Notre spectators and what strategiesLGBTQ athletes? Dame Australia researching the do you use to deal with anti- mechanisms underlying improvement LGBTQ behaviours in person A: I think it would be amazing just to knowin pain and function when completing from fans, or on social media? that the code cares, that they’re not goingexercise rehabilitation. to “compromise the integrity of the fabric A: Once I came out (very publicly… like, of the team” as Jason Akermanis once Myles is the deputy chair for the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald)said and that they’re still going to be able2019 ASICS Sports Medicine Australia to the world, I can’t think of a single to do the sport they love if they decide (SMA) Conference in Twin Waters and derogatory comment that I have had to come out – and that the organisation a member of the scientific committee for about my sexuality. I think because I’m is there with them all the way. the 2019 6th World Congress of Science VOLUME 36 • ISSUE 3 2018 33 anilobm/segamiytteg