Former soccer player Vassilis Tsiartas, who played for AEK FC and the Greek national team, received this week a prison sentence and a fine for posting messages deemed “transphobic” on social networks, quoting the Bible.
“God created Adam and Eve. The remaining was manufactured for consumption”, wrote the former athlete from 49 years on Facebook, when criticizing a law of 2017 that would lower the age to change legally sex to 15 years and would remove other legal barriers.707070“I hope the first sex changes are made in the children of those who voted for this abomination”, opined Tsiartas on social networks.
The former athlete received a prison sentence of 10 months and a fine of 5 thousand euros (more than 27 thousand reais in the current conversion) of the Court of Misdemeanors of Athens. The Transgender Support Association, who opened the process, described punishment in relation to the former player’s biblical views as “particularly important to the transgender community”.
In turn, Tsiartas promised, in a message on Twitter, to appeal the decision. The former football player became the first to be convicted under the anti-racism law, amended in 2014, which now includes “transphobia”.
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