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No problem, any questions are welcome! Yes out of my team the percentages are almost definitely higher than the national average but then again its a very comfortable and welcoming environment for anyone of any orientation so that may be why people are more able to come out and so affect the stats!

No problem! I'll do my best to answer your questions!

1. No differences that I know of at the international level, in lower levels eg some university leagues they play "U19 rules" in which the scrum can only be pushed 1.5m. In younger years girls don't start lifting in lineouts until u18 level (or they didn't when I played!)

2. Yeah no.8 or anywhere in the back row!

3. I would say so, there are the same advantages to being larger as a forward in the women's game as in the mens. Obviously they tend to be smaller on average though

4. I think the RFU needs to make a commitment to show the womens game on TV more, make it a priority to turn it professional etc. At the moment the excuse is that "its not watched enough/not at a good enough level". However the commitment needs to be made to show it more to increase interest and start paying players so they don't have to try a fit in a job around training to improve the standard!

5. I got into the sport as I pretty much got into every sport at secondary school!

6. Our uni team trains twice a week with matches on Wednesdays, I normally try to get to the gym every day I don't have training/a match other than Thursdays which is swimming recovery!

7. Hmm I would have to say that I think a penalty is worth too much compared to a try and encourages kicking rather than playing the ball! I would probably prefer if conversions and penalties were both worth 2!

8. I think the recent scrum laws have helped a lot to make that part of the game faster. Not sure of anything else right now!

9. Definitely, I like the replays for tries as well as the replays to check for foul play meaning the culprit is punished rather than "lots of them were involved and we can't send them all off" attitude.

10. I'm not much of league fan really, its a completely different sport and for me it takes away a number of the parts of the game that I love!

No worries! Hope my answers make sense! My numbers are messing up somehow!

I'm straight and don't feel uncomfortable at all changing in front of a gay female teammate. I would probably feel slightly different if it was a straight male but I feel as a female they are less likely to sexualise every woman there (gross oversimplification I know but it was the only way I could explain it, sorry). I find it a bit offensive to lesbians that some girls feel like because they're a lesbian they will be attracted to them when this isn't the case at all.

I've known teammates who I thought were straight get involved with other teammates and girls have come out as gay but that may be to do with the welcome atmosphere. We don't have rules on relationships between players so I guess it could!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZlFVOp4faI

Well as I'm at uni (studying medicine) I kinda feel on my days off from rugby I should probably do some work! It doesn't always happen though... I enjoy swimming and watch an alarming amount of Netflix when I'm not playing rugby/gyming!