Gisele Shaw discusses an incident that took place at WrestleCon.
On April 1, 2023, Gisele Shaw put out a statement accusing Rick Steiner of making disparaging and derogatory comments towards her about her transgender identity at the WrestleCon event in Los Angeles, California.
One day later, WrestleCon put out a statement in support of Shaw, while also banning Steiner from returning to the weekend's events and festivities.
In a new interview with Cultaholic, Shaw said that while the incident was unfortunate, she's very grateful for all of the people that supported her during that time. Shaw also stated that despite the fact that the world has come so far on these types of issues, there is still so much work to do in bringing true equality to the world.
“It is very unfortunate that that incident happened, especially that they are certain people that I watched growing up and that I looked up to growing up. It’s just unfortunate that it did happen. I don’t know what the motive was, but all I can say is that I’m just so grateful for the people that supported me and have been there for me when I went through that, because that was really rough for me personally. I didn’t want to get out of bed because of what happened, there’s been so many people that have supported me and said, hey, no, you’re not sleeping, you need to get out. Things like that happen unfortunately still. We’ve come so far as a community, but I feel like there’s still so much work to do so all we got to do is keep pushing forward and make sure we support in and out of wrestling.”
Shaw is set to compete on the October 19 episode of IMPACT Wrestling on AXS TV. Fans can learn more about the card by clicking here.
If you missed anything from the October 12 episode of IMPACT on AXS TV, catch up with Fightful's quick results by clicking here.
If you use any of the quotes above, please credit the original source with a h/t and link back to Fightful for the transcription.
