\n The club extends its heartfelt support to courageous past player Mitch Brown\n <\/p>\n
\n By westcoasteagles.com.au\n <\/p>\n
The West Coast Eagles proudly support former player Mitch Brown following his courageous decision to publicly share his story today.<\/p>\n
Mitch was a valued member of our club from 2007 to 2016, playing 94 games with distinction.<\/p>\n
His decision to speak openly about his identity demonstrates the same courage and integrity he showed throughout his playing career.<\/p>\n
We are moved by Mitch’s bravery in speaking his truth.<\/p>\n
His honesty about his experiences reminds us that we all have work to do in creating truly inclusive and welcoming spaces within our game across the country.<\/p>\n
His voice will undoubtedly provide comfort, representation and hope to many across our community.<\/p>\n
The West Coast Eagles remain committed to fostering an inclusive environment where every person – past, present and future – feels valued and supported to be their authentic self.<\/p>\n
Thanks Mitch, we are incredibly proud to call you one of our own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The club extends its heartfelt support to courageous past player Mitch Brown By westcoasteagles.com.au The West Coast Eagles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-100259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-text","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}