SYDNEY (AP) — Seven Manly Sea Eagles players have withdrawn from a National Rugby League match in Australia because they’re unwilling to wear their club's inclusion jersey. The jersey has rainbow stripes and a rainbow collar — in place of the regular white sections — to support LGBTQ inclusion in sports, and the club plans to use it for one game against Sydney Roosters.

“The players will not play on Thursday and we accept their decision,” Hasler said. “These young men are strong in their beliefs and convictions and we will give them the space and support they require.

remove them from your team, make cancel culture real I beg of you :trans-gun:

  • Spike [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Rugby union is the one that copies boarding school shit, rugby league is more of a poorer people's sport in Aus. Also, most of the players in this boycott are of Islander or Maori descent. In Australia a large portion of homophobic/anti LGBTQIA+ people are immigrants from strict religious backgrounds. As @KiaKaha said, for Pacific Islanders this is a remnant of them being colonised. But it is so ingrained now that there are several evangelical christian churches owned and run by people of Islander background where they echo everything the white evangelical christians in USA talk about.

    • star_wraith [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      for Pacific Islanders this is a remnant of them being colonised

      This was something that blew my mind a bit once I finally understood it. There are places all over the world that, before they were colonized and forcibly Christianized, were actually reasonably OK with different notions of gender, sexuality, etc. But since colonization the worst aspects of Christianity it seems, have been retained in many places.