Softball and sexual diversity in Cuban schoolgirls

The study addresses the recognition, importance and actuality of the management of individual differences and educational diversity in female softball athletes of the Escuela de Iniciación Deportiva (EIDE) "Orestes Acosta" of Santiago de Cuba. From the diagnosis made to a sample of 27 athletes of the female softball team of the mentioned institution, the necessary information for this study was collected. Insufficiencies were noted, such as: rejection of athletes with diverse sexual orientation, sexual harassment that forces them to remain invisible, silenced by heteronormativity, physical, verbal or psychological violence. The didactic proposal offers indicators that allow to evaluate, individually, the results obtained related to the respect for the diverse sexual orientation of the team members. When contrasting the results in relation to the initial survey, an increasing progress is observed in all the indicators observed.