My final research question is; What is the effect of gender norms on public discussion of mental health in elite athlete’s posts on Twitter and the posts’ top comments, from 2010-Present Day? In my study, the independent variable will be gender norms. Gender norms in the context of this research are a set of expected behaviors and attitudes by society based on that athletes sex. The dependent variable will be public discussions of mental health of elite athletes. The public discussions of mental health will be athletes tweets or retweets about challenges with mental health. My units of observation will be their Twitter posts and its reactive comments. Throughout my research, I expect to find that male athletes will receive less support when coming out about issues of mental health on Twitter than compared to females due to gender norms because the general public expects male athletes to toughen up to their issues if mental health while females are expected to have these issues and talk about them.