Why do out women outnumber out men at the Tokyo Olympics?

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Tom Daley will compete in his second Olympics after coming out publicly as gay, and his fourth overall. He’s one of a handful of publicly out men at the Tokyo Summer Games. (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)

As we at Outsports have been putting together our list of publicly out LGBTQ athletes in Tokyo for the Summer Olympic Games, one trend has clearly emerged: the number of out women far exceeds the number of out men…