This paper reports findings from five recent studies related to gender and sexuality in Australian sport. It offers a challenge to widespread claims that exclusionary practices such as homo/bi/transphobia have been reduced or eliminated within sport settings. We suggest there remains much to be done towards ‘inclusion’, and that the concept itself is perhaps an illusion. Drawing on ‘diversity work’ theory we suggest inclusion is yet to be fully realised in sport-based research circles, and we argue that claims about the advanced progress in inclusion for LGBT+ people are problematic. Structures of language, institutional organisation and misaligned practices act as blocks to inclusion and fuel discrimination. We conclude by offering suggestions about where these can be addressed in sport and in research.

本文报告了最近五项与澳大利亚体育运动中的性别和性行为相关的研究结果。它对广泛声称的运动环境中减少或消除了同性恋/双性恋/跨性别恐惧症等排他性做法提出了挑战。我们认为要实现“包容性”还有很多工作要做，而且这个概念本身可能是一种幻觉。借鉴“多元化工作”理论，我们认为在以体育为基础的研究圈中尚未完全实现包容性，我们认为有关 LGBT+ 人群包容性取得先进进展的说法是有问题的。语言结构、机构组织和不一致的做法是包容和助长歧视的障碍。最后，我们提供了有关在体育和研究中可以解决这些问题的建议。