It's official! #TeamLGBTQ has more medals in Paris than any Olympics before. And by tomorrow, it won't be close! outsports.com/2024/8/8/24098…

Have to bring this back one more time. Entered international football in a realm, left it in another. The ban on women's football in Brazil wasn’t lifted until 1981, Marta was born in 1986. Brazil hosts 2027 World Cup. Marta’s influence is unmatched.

Bowing out of the The Olympic Games on the podium. 👏🥈

No suprise there. USA was outstanding throughout and showed that they’re ready with a new generation and way of playing. Emma Hayes has brought a very talented group forward and showed how fast women’s football is growing and improving. The evolution is lightning, as more

Love. I hope this is the image remembered and not the hate. Lin Yu-Ting being comforted by other medalists after she won gold and made history. Everyone knows what she has had to go through these past few days and how hard she fought for her country, her mom, and herself.

The ramping up of homophobia, transphobia and racism against footballer is alarming.

Let’s go through and contextualise this article about the flying bats. (1/?)

A lot has been made of the filming & camera ban being about censoring the game. The truth is that players - both trans and not trans - have been receiving threats of violence and doxxing. Security was not checking phones unless a person was behaving suspiciously. (2/?)

Particularly there is a weasel-y looking man who styles himself a “journalist” who has previously shown up before to film & re-edit snippets of people to take out of context. He shows up everywhere. Some ppl believe he’s being paid to do so but I’m not 100% sure on that. (3/?)

High up, the article says that the teams includes 5 trans players. It conveniently leaves until the very, very end of the article that trans players have been playing in the club at all levels with no issue for 20 years. (4/?)

Parents? The players are adults. Complaints from club officials? Where have those complaints been the last 20 years? (5/?)

There’s been a lot around the other teams’ right to forfeit - the ones that wanted to did, and despite officials saying they would be punished, there hasn’t been any punishment. Nothing financial, no bans, etc. (6/?)

Then there’s the claim that it makes a difference. Again, there were trans players playing in the league last year and the year before that and so on, and they didn’t win the grand final. They won this year because of hard work, dedication to practice and smart coaching (7/?)

Someone on the other team also got a yellow card. Mistakes happen. And finally, a cisgender woman (not a trans woman) was named “best on ground”, or player of the match, which was the title used at presentation. Doesn’t seem like anyone minds about accuracy though. (8/8)

Let me get this straight. On Wear It Purple Day, no less, the government has divided the LGBTQIA+ community by announcing it will include a census question on sexuality, but will continue to omit one on gender identity. This is just so disheartening.

Just yesterday. Coroner calls for urgent investment into health care for trans community, following five tragic deaths - In setting out her findings, Ms Giles detailed how the impact of discrimination on trans community members, particularly in the health abc.net.au/news/2024-08-2…

Tonight's tifo in honor of Austin Pride makes it clear, trans and nonbinary Texans are welcome. For more thoughts on what it means to me as a nonbinary Texan check out hmhstudios.com/blog/what-lgbt… Thank you Los Verdes for being an inclusive space for @austinfc fans.

Good to see this from Sutton United FC over in the UK. Solidarity.

Post #AUSvBHR reactions from Robina for ESPN Australia & NZ A 1-0 defeat for the #Socceroos against Bahrain - just a second loss in a live home WCQ since 1981 - and all of a sudden the coming game with Indonesia takes on a very different light in the race for auto qualification for 2026

Feminist win