4.2 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
0:05.0 | Hello, I'm Andrea Catawood and welcome the two women's hour from BBC Radio 4. |
0:11.1 | Good morning. |
0:12.1 | Herald had as grind-breaking and historic not-to-mentioned brave. |
0:16.2 | Jake Daniels, the 17-year-old striker for Blackpool Football Club, |
0:20.0 | is all over the front pages of today's newspapers, having come out as gay, |
0:24.3 | making him the first current male professional footballer to do so. |
0:28.2 | In fact, extraordinarily, there are only two openly gay men |
0:31.4 | in the whole of professional football worldwide. |
0:34.5 | Here's what he said. |
0:35.5 | I feel like I'm ready to tell people about my story. |
0:38.6 | I want people to know the real me and blind all the time. |
0:42.0 | It isn't what I've wanted to do and it has been a struggle. |
0:44.0 | But now I just do feel like I'm ready to be myself, be free and just be confident with all. |
0:49.8 | I'm ready to be myself for Jake's words there. |
0:52.8 | But it seems like it's a very different story in women's sport. |
0:56.4 | Or is it? |
0:57.4 | This morning we want to hear from you about whether or not you can be yourself in sport. |
1:02.8 | Whether you're a professional or enjoy some gentle five aside, |
1:06.2 | whether it's on the tennis court or golf course, netball or rugby, |
1:09.3 | whatever you're sport, whatever you're level, |
1:11.6 | do you think it's easier for women to be themselves? |
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