""Many people call me bisexual but I consider myself as pansexual," she told the publication."
""I would be delighted to meet more people in the LGBTQ+ community in snowsports and to bring my support for someone who would need it.""
""During major sporting events like the Olympics, spaces like this truly matter," she said in a statement about her ambassadorship. "They remind us that sport should be a place where everyone feels safe, seen, and valued! Standing alongside openly LGBTQ+ Olympians and Paralympi"
The 2026 Winter Games take place 6–22 February in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. OutSports reported that the number of openly LGBTQ+ athletes doubled in 2022 compared with 2018, though a definitive 2026 total is not yet available. Team GB includes openly LGBTQ+ competitors. Makayla Gerken Schofield is a British freestyle skier and is currently understood to be the only out LGBTQ+ woman on Team GB for 2026. She identifies as pansexual, uses she/her and they/them pronouns, made her Olympic debut in Beijing 2022 with an eighth-place moguls finish, earned a Dual Mogul World Cup bronze in 2023, and serves as an ambassador for Milano Pride House.
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