'Jordan Henderson has betrayed a community he said he would stand ‘shoulder-to-shoulder’ with, selling us out for money despite already being in the top 0.01% of earners in the UK.' ✍️ ThatChris1209 writes for MetroOpinion
Football isn’t Parliament, and we shouldn’t expect any player to conform to our social and political beliefs.
Unless, say, they go out of their way to talk about that point of view. And in this case, Jordan Henderson nailed his colours firmly to the mast. ‘The idea they’d have to hide from it to be accepted? But that’s exactly how too many members of the LGBT+ community feel. We know this because they tell us. So we should listen, support them and work to make it better.’And now, without a single comment about the community he has championed, he is set to play in a country where homosexuality is effectively illegal.Where ‘cross-dressing’ is against the law, denying the gender expression of trans people.
It’s hard to be surprised when a straight person outs themself as a hypocrite at this point but that doesn’t make it sting any less.
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