There's a lot of pipelines to eating disorders and reducing people to their bodies in sports, and it starts at a young age.

I did get a lot of body image issues from it. My whole queer coming out was delayed with my time in the sport and with being on a guy's team. Everything went on the backburner because I didn’t have the time to deal with all of those emotions and the other feelings that are involved with realizing I’m queer.

There's a lot that I'm detangling now, but there is a lot of body image crap and eating disorder pipelines that are part of the soccer and the sports world. And it’s much worse in individual sports and sports where there's limited clothing.

It's something that a lot of sports will just gloss over. There's a lot of barriers and really warped thinking styles.

There's still a lot of really weird people who are in charge of a lot of hype spots in the NWSL and other sports leagues.

We need to just be a little more careful with the people in these areas, because a lot of coaching positions attract very distinct and questionable personalities.

[As told to @Ragi Gupta — continued]