She's one of the best American soccer players of all time. Off the field, she's a fierce advocate for LGBTQ+ rights, gender equality and racial justice. This is Megan Rapinoe.
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00:30I mean, pretty devastated, obviously, losing the World Cup final, but, you know, I think
00:47we have a lot to be proud of and we're going back to a country that's extremely proud of
00:51us and, you know, that means a lot.
01:06Before the games I made the choice to come out and say that I was gay and I can't exactly
01:10put my finger on it, but I think it was the best decision I ever made.
01:14I just felt very free heading over to London and I think I play my best and am my best me
01:20when I'm doing that.
01:29After this World Cup we hope that the league is more stable than it was before.
01:33We hope that the state of women's football is bigger and better than it was before in
01:38terms of, you know, performances by teams and marketing dollars and TV rights and on
01:44and on.
02:14We need to do more to make sporting spaces safe for LGBT youth.
02:21Often times women's sports is just like bootstrapped so hardcore and the budgets are so tight,
02:33like you can't expect to have a business and, like, increase your budget, like, you know,
02:38a hundred percent every year.
02:39It's just not going to work.
02:40These things need to be talked about and it's going to take a long time to break down, you
02:55know, a lot of these systems that have been ingrained in our culture and society for,
02:59like, hundreds of years.
03:00So it's not, like, you know, one movement or, you know, one summer where people are
03:06excited to talk about it or one, you know, hashtag that goes viral.
03:10We really need, like, sustained conversations, sustained efforts to, like, chip away at these
03:16deep grooves that we have in our culture.
03:36We have pink hair and purple hair.
03:39We have tattoos and dreadlocks.
03:42We got white girls and black girls and everything in between.