Posted on 07/29/2023 6:32:51 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand striker Hannah Wilkinson has helped create two milestones at the Women’s World Cup.
With her 48th-minute goal in the tournament opener against Norway, she led the co-host Football Ferns to their first win in six trips to the Women’s World Cup. She’s also one of at least 95 out members of the LGBTQ+ community competing in this year’s tournament, according to a count being kept by Outsports, a website that covers the LGBTQ+ sports.
The Ferns were greeted with a fan-made sign at their next match in Wellington: “Gay for soccer, gay for Wilkie,” it read.
The 95 out participants make up roughly 13% of the 736 total players at the Women’s World Cup, more than doubling the 40 players and coaches Outsports counted in 2019.
The 2023 tournament also is hosting the first openly trans and non-binary player in either a men’s or Women’s World Cup, Quinn of Canada.
“Last World Cup was so big, especially with the visibility of the U.S. women’s national team winning and (Megan Rapinoe) fighting with (Donald) Trump. So I think that was a huge year for LGBTQ+ visibility,” said Lindsey Freeman, a professor of sociology and anthropology at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia.
“It’s just the ad hoc, fun culture of women’s soccer that you’re seeing in this World Cup,” said Freeman, who is in New Zealand conducting research on the topic.
Jim Buzinski, co-founder of Outsports, agreed. “In the Western world, it’s such a non-issue that it really just doesn’t get talked about,” he said. “And I think that’s in a good way.”
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I would rather watch lizards molt than watch a bunch of angry women who hate men try to act like men.
When you can’t get lucky go gay you get a shot at everybody.
Rodney Dangerfield
And doesn’t it goeth before the fall?
reasons we avoid
Anyone who doesn’t stand for Old Glory will not get my attention.
Genius...make the women’s world cup all about LGBT, watch the ratings fall. Liberal women, destroyers of society.
Romans 1 applies.
May they burn with their master forever!
Amen!
I think it’s funny how people think high level women’s sports are just now becoming LGBTQ. They have always been there.
It’s just way more out in the open now.
And still I really don’t care who people sleep with, but when it starts affecting their politics, that’s when I care. And their political values suck.
I have gay friends that are very conservative on most things, and just want to be left alone.
We are in agreement 100%. I used to work in collegiate athletics. I found the women’s coaches to be the easiest to deal with. They had a sense of humor that was lacking among the “testosterone” fueled men’s coaches.
But in the 15 years I did that…no one talked about this crap. Because….it was their workplace. And it wasn’t an appropriate place to talk about stuff like who you were attracted to.
Then I worked in a hospital. I was honestly surprised to find a high % of the ED staff to be LGBT. They were great at their jobs. It had nothing to do with their sexual preference. They cared about getting patients through their trauma, and on their way.
There is a lot of attention about this stuff on FR and other places. My experience in the real world is no one was “stuffing it down my throat.” It wasn’t hidden. But for the most part it wasn’t relevant.
And this LGBT-whatever nonsense is mainly driven by non-homosexuals with an agenda, and when they achieve their aims, the gays will be first against the wall, once they are no longer useful.
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