ABSTRACT
This chapter emphasizes inclusive excellence for sport participants of all sexual and gender identities. Inclusive excellence is a concept introduced by the Association of American Colleges and Universities that re-envisions diversity and inclusion to reflect new forms of excellence in learning. Embracing inclusive excellence includes challenging normative assumptions about gender and sexual identities, as well as recognizing the vast diversity of identities. The chapter focuses on how to develop inclusive excellence, especially as it relates to creating inclusive norms regarding sexuality and gender diversity on sport teams. It provides a variety of suggestions that sport psychology practitioners can use with coaches and athletes. Within an inclusive excellence approach, the sport psychology practitioner can assist the coach in addressing the team climate. The sport psychology practitioner working with the team should lead a discussion about trans athletes and assist in dispelling misinformation.
