Rainbow laces Stonewall school campaign

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In support of LGBTQ+ and Stonewall campaign Sport for All. Laces £3.00

Just found this on DS's school Parent Pay......

Send it to transgender trend instead

Sent!

Bloody hate all this rainbow stuff; I adored my rainbow stitched dms in the 90s, now it would 'mean' something. I also love rainbows on kids, esp my second "rainbow" child.

Not a hope. Schools should not be doing this.

And when I was a kid Rainbow means Zippy, Bungle and Geoffrey.

Rainbows to me always meant Greenpeace and Save the Whale.
But I'm old.

I'm sure they don't appreciate the implications of "sport for all"....

God yes, how could I forget that?

Sorry Jeff.

And I stop at LGB thank you very much. The whole alphabet soup is very tiring...

^ and Zippy too

Rod Jane and Freddy! And some poor little girl called Laura they showed doing a poo for some reason. Poor child.

Yes greenpeace back in the day. Clearly been very over written in my mind.

And cheer bear of course.

Jesus SPORT for all with rainbow laces.

That's really bloody sneaky.

I remember drawing save the whales posters when I was at primary school. Y’know when kids protested about actual real stuff (climate change aside of course - but then we were yelling about that back then too!).

Is this a men in women’s sports thing? Sharon, Sharon? Where are you Sharon? Martina? Can we have a word please...?

Just did a google:

www.stonewall.org.uk/our-work/campaigns/rainbow-laces

I’m too scared to click. I may have a stroke.

stops googling Rod Jane and Freddy love triangle

This is it:

www.stonewall.org.uk/about-us/media-centre/media-statement/sports-goes-rainbow-more-20-associations-join-stonewalls

Obviously as usual the LGB coming out in sport is incredibly important esp football, rugby etc. The T is problematic and rainbow washed.

Thankfully DSs sporks kit is pink anyway.

It was in November though?

Rainbow flag? International Co-operative Alliance, of course

It's new on Parent Pay so must be ongoing.

Lesbian, gay, bi and trans people can have negative perceptions and experiences of sport, whether it’s due to bullying in school sport, coming across anti-LGBT language on social media, down the pub or during live sports.

If people are being verbally abused for being gay or trans, then I fully support this message. However, I strongly suspect 'anti-LGBT language' is stuff like saying, males shouldn't compete with females. Like usual.

The research also found the British public want to see LGBT inclusion at all levels of sport. Nearly two-thirds (63 per cent) said local sports club should be welcoming of lesbian, gay, bi and trans people.

Also this^

I expect most places answered basically because..sexuality doesn't matter in sport. When you lump LGB and T in together, people cannot voice concerns about the T (and not even the T really. Iust basic fairness that near all agree with, given males are stronger and faster on average, hence seperate competitions.. ). Of course, there is no reason why a gay person should not participate in sport. There are however very valid reasons to be against men entering womens competitions.

It is normalising males in female sports categories. That is all.

Why not have laces to support para sports or blind football? For wheelchair tennis and murderball (sorry I forget the real sport but this is what the athletes call it), or the special olympics? To send sports equipment to kids who have absolutely nothing?