So would I, but I'm not so sure about coaches, parents, or the "gymnastics establishment". If they are so fixated on gold medals that they would turn a blind eye to the variety of forms of abuse reported by the athletes, I have a hard time believing that they have the best interest of the girls at heart.
Going back to the whole youth-sports thing, it seems that at least some parents consciously approve of some forms of blatant abuse as acceptable practice when carried out by coaches in the context of "sports" and "training". As some of the women giving impact statements describe, coaches and others involved in sports training are deliberately dismissive of child athletes' complaints of pain, injuries, and discomfort because "no pain no gain". They will assert that physical training even when painful or uncomfortable IS in the best interest of the girls.
It sounds to me as if when girls raised concerns to other adults, Nassar was always ready with excuses, invoking "legitimate medical techniques" that simply required his hands to be in very close proximity to the girls' genitals, and that they were just exaggerating or making things up about
how close, in order to get out of uncomfortable but necessary treatments. This fit so well with the "stop complaining and push through the pain" approach those adults employed in every other aspect of the girls' training that they readily accepted it and treated the girls concerns as just more complaining.
Think about the "hernia test" for boys described on the last page, as ubiquitous as it is. If a boy tried approaching his middle school, high school, or non-school sports coach complaining that the doctor he was sent to keeps trying to fondle his testicles and it makes him uncomfortable and he doesn't think it's right, what do you think the coach is going to tell him? Shut up. Stop being such a pansy. Everybody has to go through it. It's a common and legitimate medical procedure to check for a hernia. How old are you - you really think you know better than an actual doctor what is a real or acceptable medical procedure and what isn't? In reality, the doctor could be a pedophile taking advantage of free access to children's private parts and taking extreme liberties during his "exams", but the boy would be completely unable to convince other adults that something was wrong.
