Black Ferns Star Ruby Tui Stands Firm On Boycott Of Weet-Bix Player Cards

Ruby Tui New Zealand: Ruby Tui is a well known player and right now she has boycotted Weet-Bix player cards because the didn’t allowed her rainbow card.

Where the management replied “To have a change, we would feel that we would need to consult with all of the players,” NZR president Dame Patsy Reddy.

“We couldn’t do something for one without the others… There simply wasn’t time, before those cards were being printed.”

NZ Rugby has committed to Pride Pledge and is not ruling out allowing rainbow flags in the future.

“We’d certainly consider a request in the future, for future years, if the players requested so,” said Dame Patsy. Owned by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Weet-Bix is not a supporter of Pride Pledge, but NZ Rugby told that Sanitarium also didn’t have enough time to make a decision.

Sport inclusivity advocate Craig Watson says Tui has done the right thing. “Being someone with a platform, it’s important to take a stand when you need to,” he said. “She’s taken a stand and said, ‘If you can’t accept all of me or you can’t accept this part of me, then you can’t have any of me’. “I think she’s made the right call.”