I imagine the makers of the video thought “let’s be intersectional!” but I think they also were aware of optics. Samoan culture accepts Fa’aafine, who are gay men but not necessarily treated as women. I imagine the makers of the video consciously or subconsciously thought it’s better to have a Polynesian looking male than a Caucasian AGP looking male. That way they can use “intersectionality” to claim the woman who leaves the lift is not only transphobic, but might be a racist too.
Equally, why use a Sistergirl for the section of Aussie rules football? There’s already been an example of a trans identifying male in this sport, Hannah Mouncey. Why not use someone who looks like him? Because they know it’s a bad look; they know a young girl or woman isn’t likely to nod encouragingly towards someone like Mouncey to come and join them for a contact sport, so no audience would buy into it. But use “intersectionality” for that, and it shows a white girl (why not indigenous girl here?) being kind to a black boy. Girls telling boys they don’t want to play footy with or against them because they’re male? Transphobes. Girls telling black boys they don’t want to play with or against them because they’re male? Transphobes and probably racist.
They knew exactly how it would look and exactly what they were doing. It’s funny how no one in Australia has dared attack indigenous culture’s “men’s business” and “women’s business” which is strictly sex segregated. You don’t see TRAs standing outside private women’s business sites in the bush with placards demanding sistergirls are let in. I wonder why?🤔