This year’s Women’s World Cup for soccer will include a record number of out LGBTQ+ athletes. Not only that, but it’s notably higher than the previous record, which was 38 out LGBTQ+ players in 2019. This year, there will be 87, which means we’ve more than doubled!
The author writes this as if it was a good thing to have queer women vastly overrepresented in women sports, explicitly cheering to the Brazilian team with 9 queer athletes. Without specifying what type of queer that is.
If this gains public interest, the public will hear that women sports has largely been taken over by trans women. Aspiring cis women will lose the will to compete. The right will have endless amount of fuel for future hate tirades.
Beware, this is a double edged sword to win visibility.