How accepting are university sports teams to LGBT members?

There used to be an obvious stigma surrounding homosexuality, bisexuality etc. and university sports. Now I know that things are A LOT better and there are many openly gay professional athletes but how much do you think things have actually changed in terms of university sport?

I play hockey for my university and although I don't like labels, I guess I would identify myself as bisexual. Most people at uni, outside of hockey, know about this and know that I am currently strongly crushing on another girl, but nobody on my team knows about my sexuality (as far as I'm aware of). It is just an assumption that everyone is straight (guys and girls). I am not sure why I haven't told them. It's just that nobody ever asks and they know I've got with guys before and I'm not one to make a whole song and dance to anounce it to them.

Now of course there is no open discrimination. It is a massive club and everyone is accepted. But there is still, I wouldn't say pressure (there isn't any peer pressure, even surrounding drinking), but expectation that the guys and girls will get together every sportsnight. Of course you will not be castigated if you refuse or it's not your kind of thing but still, to put it frankly, it is all very heterosexual.

I don't really know what would happen if I came out. One of the guys is gay and this is well known but the guys team isn't as like 'let's get with all the girls' as the girls team is with 'let's get with all the guys'. I'm guessing a girl could have a different reaction to coming out.

What do you guys think? Do you have any of the same experiences with sports teams at your uni?

If they don't react well, you should not even consider playing again with them.

Hi there OP

I'm not sure I would classify myself as LGBT but I am very gender non-conforming (and questioning whether I might actually be trans) and possibly asexual as well.

I also play hockey at university and I've found that while the people are nice enough, with the exception of one or two we don't really "click". I feel a little uncomfortable and awkward being in an all female environment and people can obviously tell by looking at me that I am not your standard straight,cis person (I suspect they think I am a butch lesbian).
I try to avoid socials, especially when they are mixed with the mens team, for the precise reason that everything is highly gendered and highly sexualised, which makes me feel uncomfortable and I stick out like a sore thumb.
I love the hockey, and I get on well enough with the people, but there's always this sort of distance between me an the other players and I know I won't really ever be one of them. I think this may have been made worse by me moving teams partway through the season.

On the other hand, I also play on a mixed team for my university subject, and it's been fantastic. Socials are much more fun (even if there is a lot of people getting off with each other, the boy-girl divide no longer exists so it's a different sexual dynamic). I feel like people just get on with the hockey and the socialising and everything without caring about gender or sexuality or anything, whereas in single sex hockey (more so in the girls teams) there is very much a "type" of person that is viewed as ideal, and anything else is tolerated with a smile, but not truly respected on equal terms.