Jacobs, Gay Center: “Post transphobic in 2012, distance yourself”

Gay Center ‘will dust off’ a post dated 2012 by Marcell Jacobs – born in 1994 and Olympic gold medal in Tokyo 2020 – and via social media accuses the athlete of having used a “transphobic language”. Language from which he is now asking to distance himself, siding in favor of the rights of the LGBT + community. In the post of August 9 years ago, the then not yet 18 year old Jacobs told of the “figure of m ….” of his friend Alessandro who, we read, “dances in front of a trans”. Too much for Gay Center, which relaunches the post on Twitter and refers to a long comment posted on Instagram. “We are told of a post – we read – where the centometrist Marcell Jacobs, Olympic gold medal from Tokyo, uses a transphobic language towards trans people. Several years ago Jacobs had in fact denigrated a friend of his, guilty, according to him, of having danced with a trans girl, among other things defined in the masculine with the words ‘a trans’. A language certainly to be condemned, as it stigmatizes trans people, as if dancing with a trans girl was something to be avoided and to be ashamed of. that Jacobs – it continues – distances himself from this statement, recalling that it is precisely this exclusionary language that creates homophobia and transphobia, and for which people feel isolated for what they simply are “. Jacobs, continues Gay Center,” has the duty to take a stand in favor of rights and for this reason we expect him to help Italy to move in this direction. We imagine a Jacobs different from the bad examples we have had in sport. liano. From the homophobic words of Fognini in tennis, to the statements by Gattuso that cost the bench at Tottenham, going back to the European Championships in which Antonio Cassano denigrated homosexuals. Today – the Center explains – there is instead a sport that runs much faster than homophobes. From the Olympic coming out of Bruni, Enogu and Boari, up to the diver Tom Daley who allocates the proceeds of his social actions to LGBT shelters. Vettel, at the Hungarian Grand Prix, instead wore a rainbow jersey against Orban’s discriminatory policies. We would like Jacobs to follow the same path as Emanuele Mauti, the water polo player who apologized for some homophobic slips of the past and apologized during the 2017 Latina Pride. “Then the invitation:” Let’s wait for Jacobs at Rieti Lazio Pride on 11 September . Which city more than Rieti, a symbol of athletics and ready to host the Pride, may be the best scenario to make the whole country run towards rights “. After the Gay Center post, however, many users lined up in the comments in In favor of the athlete. At the center of the protests, Jacobs’ young age in 2012, but also the inconsistency of the allegations made. “Jacobs was 17-18 9 years ago. I just want to see how you all were at that age. All perfect and polite I imagine “,” that if that post is transphobic we should invoke a new Nuremberg court with immediate death sentences for at least 4 Italian newspapers … “,” the transphobic part of the post escapes me “,” 17 he was … at this point we are going to take the conversations of the middle school and we do the trial to everybody. Madonna what clowns you are “,” tweet of 2012 when he was practically still a child “,” this is a ridiculous attitude as well as harmful to the community, our goal is to improve, to make people change their attitude and idea certainly not to do. pillories on years old posts “,” thus falling into ridicule just to make some interaction. Go to shit … and someone you should represent tells you, but I gladly do without “, are just some of the latest comments that appeared under the tweet. +++ JACOBS: POST TRASNPHOBIC CHECK. TAKE DISTANCES AND JOIN THE RACE RIGHTS +++ https: //t.co/j8QhsNF3DF pic.twitter.com/OKJ4VTHjJ5— Gay Center (@gaycenter_it) August 3, 2021