{"id":33134,"date":"2025-08-05T22:09:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T22:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/kick-it-out-record-high-reports-of-discrimination-with-a-rise-in-sexism-transphobia-and-faith-based-abuse-during-2024-25-season\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T22:09:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T22:09:30","slug":"kick-it-out-record-high-reports-of-discrimination-with-a-rise-in-sexism-transphobia-and-faith-based-abuse-during-2024-25-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/kick-it-out-record-high-reports-of-discrimination-with-a-rise-in-sexism-transphobia-and-faith-based-abuse-during-2024-25-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Kick It Out: Record-high reports of discrimination with a rise in sexism, transphobia, and faith-based abuse during 2024-25 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Anti-discrimination charity Kick It Out says it received record-high reports of discrimination during the 2024-25 season with a rise in sexism, transphobia and faith-based abuse.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Across all levels of English football last season, there were 1,398 incidents reported  &#8211; up from the 1,332 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c80xwlgpwxjo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">published in last season&#8217;s figures<\/a> &#8211; and the most ever received by the organisation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reports of sexism and misogyny rose by 67%, with reports increasing from 115 in the 2023-24 season to 192.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Faith-based abuse climbed from 117 to 132, while reports of transphobia doubled from 22 to 44.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reports involving girls&#8217; football doubled to 31, including two at under-9s level, while overall youth reports rose from 144 to a record high of 186.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Overall reports of racism fell across all levels of football, but the number of racist incidents in the professional game increased from 223 to 245.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kick It Out also noted in its end-of-season reporting statistics for last season: <\/p>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-h5qd1q-ListContainer e5tfeyi0\">\n<ul role=\"list\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There were 621 reports of online abuse submitted &#8211; a 5% rise on last year &#8211; with 268 related to racism.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There were 18 reports of sexist chanting received for 2024-25, which almost matched the total from the previous four seasons combined.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Grassroots football accounted for 325 reports &#8211; up from 303 in 2023-24. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Homophobic abuse fell slightly, down from 162 to 139 reports.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Disability abuse also had a significant increase, with reports up by 45% across all levels of the game from 51 to 76.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kick It Out chief executive Samuel Okafor said &#8220;discrimination remains deeply embedded across the game&#8221;, and the rise in abuse in youth football &#8220;should be a wake-up call&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Okafor acknowledged there had been a &#8220;clear shift&#8221; in people &#8220;calling out sexist behaviour&#8221;, but he wants to see greater action to tackle online abuse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s clear that online platforms are still falling short. The volume of abuse remains high, and too often those responsible face no consequences,&#8221; said Okafor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Fans are doing their part by speaking up. It&#8217;s now up to football authorities, tech companies and government to show they&#8217;re listening, and to act.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cy08xxd0p1po?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-discrimination charity Kick It Out says it received record-high reports of discrimination during the 2024-25 season with a rise in sexism, transphobia and faith-based abuse. Across all levels of English football last season, there were 1,398 incidents reported &#8211; up from the 1,332 published in last season&#8217;s figures &#8211; and the most ever received by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33136,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33134\/revisions\/33136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}