LGBTQ2S+ and other rights issues at World Cup a 'huge blemish' on FIFA: Hall of Famer

Carrie Serwetnyk, the first woman inducted into the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame and an advocate for equal rights in sports,is in Qatar for the 2022 World Cup and says the event is "still trying to find its joy."

Serwetnyk, who is a gay woman, said she feels very safe in Qatar during the World Cup, but acknowledges the concerns. "There's been so much negative attention to the tournament in the press with human rights, worker's death and LGBTQ2S+issues, it seems like the tournament is still trying to find its joy," she said.

"The Qatari government should call an immediate halt to this abuse and FIFA should push the Qatari government to ensure long-term reform that protects LGBTQ2S+people from discrimination and violence," Rasha Younes, an LGBT rights researcher at Human Rights Watch, said in a news release last month. "Qatar existed in this lens before the microscope of the World Cup came to the region and ultimately, it was FIFA's decision to put their fans at risk, to put the LGBTQ2S+Qatari population at risk, by hosting a tournament there," Nixon said in an interview.

We need to take the politics out of sports, most of us just want to get away from it all and watch the game without some special interest group hijacking and politicizing the event. I don’t think giving us 3 hrs of just watching the game is too much to ask.

The Qu'ran directly states that homosexuality is a crime. Islamic countries can not change that. They would need to defy it. Not happening.

is this one of those protests that ctv approves of

This is a great demonstration of what people who only use the LGBTQ2S+ folks for virtue signalling really stand for - when they're willing to put their 'fight for rights' on 'pause' over a stupid game. Well done! 🙄

'Respect all cultures' -Unless they think there are two genders and offend the alphabet mafia.

Lol huge blemish, wrong. Keep politics out of it.

Who? No real football fan has ever heard of this person. Get a life. Go woke. Go broke.

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