You, of course, won't read much about sexual harassment in women's sports, but I think it's common and hetero recruits will sometimes exclude programs with lesbian coaching staffs from consideration because of the locker room/shower situation and the atmosphere described in the article and the linked article about the straight WNBA player. I knew a women's player who played her freshman year at ND in the mid-80s, the year before McGraw arrived. She was Miss Basketball in Wisconsin her senior year of high school and led ND in scoring her freshman year. She was the best player on the team but she left after that first year because she couldn't take the sexualized environment: coaches and players eyeing her up in the showers in obvious ways and other things. Based on what I heard from her family and what I've read elsewhere, it's a complete subculture in women's sports.
And as the author of this piece gets at, most viewers aren't interested in watching butch she-males go to war on the court or the field, which is one of the reasons women's tennis has prospered while the WNBA has been a miserable failure.