Athlete Ally, an organization dedicated to ending homophobia and transphobia in sports, has released their Athletic Equality Index (AEI), an ongoing assessment of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) athletic departments’ policies and practices around LGBTQ inclusion.
Georgia universities did not fare well. AEI scores are awarded Athlete Ally performs a comprehensive audit of the student-athlete handbook, policy manuals, and official athletes website to identify policies and practices of LGBTQ inclusion of every NCAA Division-1 (D-1) school.
Of the four Georgia schools included in the AEI – Georgia State University, Georgia Southern University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and University of Georgia – the University of Georgia