Channel 7’s Kate McCarthy has actually lashed the AFL for an absence of action and assistance for Richmond AFLW star Kate Dempsey. Ahead of her 50th video game and throughout the league’s Pride Round on October 12, Dempsey composed a piece about her household and her journey as a queer female. VIEW THE VIDEO ABOVE: Talking W supports Kate Dempsey after ‘repellent’ online attacks. Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today The story was shared on the AFL’s social networks platforms and left unmonitored, as giants required to it and mistreated Dempsey with repellent and horrible remarks. After the untreated remarks accumulated, Richmond launched a declaration, stating Dempsey’s story “should have to be commemorated”. “Instead, some people picked to make deeply troubling and undesirable remarks,” the declaration checked out. Kate Dempsey with her child, Pippa, ahead of her 50th video game. Credit: Getty Images “Richmond Football Club accepts variety in all its types. There is absolutely no tolerance for homophobia, discrimination or any type of hate in our video game. In other words, everybody deserves to feel safe.” According to McCarthy, Richmond then signaled the AFL to the remarks and the post was eliminated. “The AFL then launched a declaration on Friday early morning … practically 3 days later on, apologising to Kate and her household,” McCarthy stated on Seven’s Talking W. “This declaration was made by an unidentified AFL representative, the exact same representative described that there were treatments in location for keeping an eye on remarks however confessed (the remarks were not eliminated rapidly enough). “It is my understanding that nobody from the AFL has actually personally connected to Kate and her household, neither has any representative or leader from the AFL spoken up in assistance of Kate and her household. “Andrew Dillon (CEO), Laura Kane (football supervisor) and Emma Moore (AFLW football supervisor) have actually had media participations because the occurrence and have actually not resolved it at all. Head here to view Talking W on 7plus “This entire experience has actually left Kate deeply impacted and taken a considerable toll on her. “She shared her story in the hope that it would assist others who are possibly coping their sexuality, and this was the fallout. “Enough suffices. “These homophobic, sexist, racist remarks online should stop. “Kate, Ellie and Pippa, everybody here at Talking W and the larger AFLW neighborhood lags you, and likes you. “We toss our arms around you.”
7 analyst Kate McCarthy lashes AFL employers in after-effects of Kate Dempsey online attack
