More than 80 per cent of adults who completed a Victoria University survey report experiencing violence while participating in community sport as a child.
"You can distance yourself from an Olympic athlete experiencing abuse and start to think that it only happens at the elite level," Dr Woessner said.
Data collected by Dr Pankowiak and Dr Woessner also showed significant gendered differences in the types of violence being experienced by men, women and gender-diverse people in childhood. The authors also analysed a third category, gender-diverse people, encompassing those who identified as non-binary, gender questioning or selected "don't know" for their gender identity.
"We know from the literature broadly that marginalised communities experience institutionalised violence," Dr Pankowiak said.
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