“A falling tree makes more noise than a growing forest. I’m sorry and I apologize to all the people who felt offended by the sentence that came out in the interview (…). Surely, when I said it , it did not want to be discriminatory in nature “. Sofia Goggia thus apologizes for her statements on homosexuals and transgender people in the world of skiing published yesterday in an interview in Corriere della Sera.
A falling tree makes more noise than a growing forest.
I am sorry and I apologize to all the people who felt offended by the sentence that came out in the Corriere interview which, surely, when I said it, did not want to be of a discriminatory nature– iamsofiagoggia (@goggiasofia) April 17, 2022
The words of the champion have raised a shower of controversy on social media and media, including those of the president of the Arcigay of Bergamo Marco Arlati, of the Sentinels, of the former parliamentarian of the PD Anna Paola Concia, and of Vladimir Luxuria.
“I am very disappointed by Sofia Goggia’s statements. They are wrong and refer to an old mentality!”. Furthermore “they give the perception of the thought that unfortunately still hovers in the sports world. Athletes are such regardless of gender, gender identity and sexual orientation”, she writes on social media Arlati.
In the storm, some considerations of the skier from Bergamo are false who, answering the question whether or not there are homosexuals among the athletes, said: “Among the women, some yes. Among the men I would say no. They have to throw themselves off the Streif of Kitz … “, considered the most beautiful and difficult downhill slope in the World Cup.
To this is also added his opinion on transgenders who compete with women: “At the level of sport – he said – a man who turns into a woman has physical characteristics, even at the hormonal level, which allow him to push more. I don’t think so. that’s right “.
And then again, on whether or not she considers herself a feminist: “I believe that women should fight for their rights, including equal pay. But women are women; men, men. I don’t like when they say: woman with balls. Why do you have to judge me by what I don’t have, what I’m not? “.
“But nothing at all did she think she was being witty? – tweeted Anna Paola Concia, former parliamentary Pd – If we have to be honest then, not even the respectable sissies throw themselves off the Streif of Kitz or not?”.
Source: Ansa
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