Nicole Livingstone
7News
Victoria University
Gabby Seymour
The Age
uniform policy ‘cos of the negative impacts on players who menstruate.
AFLW football manager said she was “proud” of the decision, per . She also thanked the players “for their leadership and passion”.
Livingstone brought up the “ripple-effect” the decision would have for community sports.
“We want to lead to remove any barriers that prevent women and girls participating in Australian football,” she said.
The change comes after a study by which interviewed more than 300 girls aged 12 to 18 about sport uniforms.
It found a couple of interesting things — for example 90 per cent of respondents preferred wearing shorts in school sports and 94 per cent preferred them in outside-of-school sports.
Shorts! For! The! Win!
One respondent specifically said they’d prefer navy or black shorts as “it would make me less self-conscious when on my period”.
The move has also been welcome by AFLW players.
Richmond’s said though white shorts wouldn’t stop people from playing, it was nice to have “one extra stressor” removed, per .
She added people would be “surprised” at how often the white shorts contribute to player anxiety.
“At almost every away game people are like, ‘Oh no, white shorts’, or, you know, ‘It’s my time of the month’ or, ‘I’m worried about wearing this’,” she said.
Frankly, white is a deeply impractical colour for sports, period or no period.
And I can’t think of many thing more stressful than playing actual professional sport while being worried about leaking.
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