Posted on 07/22/2023 5:15:03 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A record number of out LGBTQ athletes will compete in this year’s Women’s World Cup, which starts later this month in Australia and New Zealand.
At least 87 out athletes will compete this year — more than double the 38 out players who competed in the last Women’s World Cup, in 2019, according to the LGBTQ sports website Outsports.
Outsports noted that the number of teams has grown by a third, from 24 to 32, but that the jump in the number of out competitors “reflects the growth of acceptance.”
The number of out players at the Women’s World Cup also continues to rise while there were no out LGBTQ players who competed in the men’s World Cup last November. Cyd Zeigler, the founder of Outsports and a longtime LGBTQ advocate, said that’s in part because there are simply more queer women playing elite-level soccer than there are queer men doing the same.
“This is true across basketball, ice hockey and most every other sport,” Zeigler said in a statement to NBC News. “The WNBA has over 25% out women. That higher presence of out athletes naturally creates an environment where more women feel comfortable being out. As we say at Outsports, Courage Is Contagious.”
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No, the pic is for context.
Female ice skaters have really nice ...skills.
I can’t take the chance of that Johnny fruitcake being seen or heard.
I do agree on their skills.
What a strange I obsession.
Yep, I dare say she looks even better now than when she played.
In other words men who can’t win against male athletes will compete against women instead?
Yeah, he managed to ruin a lot of winter Olympic coverage.
We can add her to the Jennifer Beals, Jennifer Connelly, and Suzanne Hoffs list of women using witchcraft for aesthetics…
Yes.
I like sports
Am female
However:
I refuse to watch women’s Soccer/basketball/golf
LEAVES me totally unimpressed & disinterested. LIKE watching paint dry.
Give me drag racing—women there for over 50 years-—
NASCAR—5’2” Danica did well
Even lady jockeys are more interesting.
“ Now I need to think of my girl name…”
DesireeGator.
Nice! I can use that for sports and stripping…
SHEEGator
A Satanist freak soccer tourney. Vomit-inducing.
Anyone involved in high level women’s sports had known this to be true since…forever.
This isn’t really news.
It’s the World Lesbo Cup
I can’t wait to watch 😏
sand volleyball is my favorite
Soccer is a sport for butch women and beta males
Who's paying for our women's soccer team anyway?
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