Brittney Griner: My Christian university opposed me being gay but nurtured my basketball skills

[Fearless]

Griner came out as gay last year, and offered advice for young women looking up to her to “just be who you are”, and not worry about what other people might be thinking.

She has since spoken to ESPN, to say that coaches at the Texas university, where she played before being drafted by the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) asked her not to come out in case it put other parents off sending their kids there.

Writing in her new book, ‘In My Skin’, Griner discusses her struggles with being gay at Baylor University, the Baptist school which she attended, and played basketball.

The school is officially against homosexuality, and insists that students “will not participate in advocacy groups which promote understandings of sexuality that are contrary to biblical teaching.”

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2014/04/21/brittney-griner-my-christian-university-opposed-me-being-gay-but-nurtured-my-basketball-skills/

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Disgusting that a university would treat it's students like that. Absolutely disgusting.

[xfundy]

1. If you can't be yourself, who will you be?

(I know the answer from experience: sad, depressed, self-loathing, closeted, afraid to be yourself even around parents and family who watched you grow up and have to know you're gay.)

Best to this girl and all others who refuse to live a lie.