Fiji rugby fires new director who claims ladies’s sport has a ‘homosexual downside’ and believes gamers ought to be excluded

The Fiji Rugby Union has sacked former ladies’s captain Laijipa Naulivou 4 days into her job as Director of Rugby after she stated the ladies’s sport had a “homosexual downside”.

Naulivou, the primary captain of Fiji’s nationwide ladies’s staff, informed the Fiji Solar newspaper this week she was towards homosexual ladies in rugby and stated they need to be excluded if the staff was “affected” by them.

“Those that performed with me know that I don’t condone being homosexual for girls in rugby,” the paper quoted her as saying.

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“I all the time converse towards it and I do know I’m very unpopular in that space with those that practise it.”

Naulivou cited an outdated report given to her by former Fiji Check participant Pio Bosco Tikoisuva, the FRU boss within the early-2000s, that stated lesbianism was an issue in European ladies’s rugby.

“Retention of gamers and this homosexual downside have been the 2 principal issues that these European rugby international locations had of their report and Fiji is not any exception in that space, too,” she stated.

FRU stated in an announcement it had terminated Naulivou’s place.

“Whereas she had tendered her resignation, the Board decided {that a} agency stance was vital to strengthen its dedication to upholding skilled requirements and safeguarding the integrity of Fiji Rugby,” the assertion stated.

“FRU categorically rejects any type of discrimination.”