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‘Those students who are really self-confident about their homosexuality usually have considerably fewer problems’: how physical education teachers perceive sexual and gender diversity in PE

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Pages 1021-1033 | Received 30 Sep 2022, Accepted 30 May 2023, Published online: 13 Jun 2023

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