Their research found that lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and “mostly heterosexual” adolescents exercise one to two hours less a week compared to heterosexuals. The paper also said sexual minorities are 46 to 76 percent less likely to be on a sports team, due to “gender nonconformity and athletic self-esteem.”
Less likely than what?
Playing organized sports in school is an elite activity to begin with, and grows more elite the older you get. And I further doubt these “scientists” have any idea who is gay and who isn’t in any sporting arena.
When I was in middle school, I lettered in swimming, and I hung with the jocks. There were a lot of sorta effeminate guys who didn’t play sports because of the shit they’d have to take over their “queer” mannerisms. All of them, as far as I know, were straight.
OTOH, at least two of my fellow swimmers ended up gay. The just didn’t act like it or look like it.