GWS' Tilly Lucas-Rodd on how the joy of Pride Round is 'a form of resistance' against queer discrimination
- GWS player Tilly Lucas-Rodd says AFLW Pride Round is important to keep celebrating and championing while harmful attitudes towards queer people persist.
- Lucas-Rodd, who is non-binary, said the joy and pride of the moment is an important counter to the discrimination queer people can still face in sport.
- "I feel like we were getting to a place of more acceptance and now we're going backwards, and there's more discrimination, and more homophobia, and transphobia," Lucas-Rodd told ABC Sport.
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- GWS player Tilly Lucas-Rodd says AFLW Pride Round is important to keep celebrating and championing while harmful attitudes towards queer people persist.
- Lucas-Rodd, who is non-binary, said the joy and pride of the moment is an important counter to the discrimination queer people can still face in sport.
- "I feel like we were getting to a place of more acceptance and now we're going backwards, and there's more discrimination, and more homophobia, and transphobia," Lucas-Rodd told ABC Sport.
Sources: ABC Australia