The legendary wrestling star was reportedly in Los Angeles for events taking place outside of WrestleMania 39.
“I was at an autograph signing event today at WrestleCon and while I was walking to my table, I hear someone yelling, ‘You’re a man, you’re a dude, you’re a piece of trash, you are filth, get the away from here.’”
“So, I decided to talk a walk in that area, and I hear that same person saying the same derogatory comments,” she wrote. “I looked up and it was Rick Steiner saying those statements. I was shocked and could not believe this was happening. To have someone saying these comments who a lot of people look up to and consider their hero was quite shocking and disheartening.”“He kept repeating those hateful phrases and started yelling at me in a public setting,” Shaw wrote.
Shaw said that she was not writing her account for sympathy but because it was International Transgender Day of Visibility and that she was standing up for herself and others like her. IMPACT Wrestling tweeted a statement saying it “stands in full support” of Shaw and was “saddened by the incident Friday afternoon.”and the LGBTQ+ community. We are saddened by the incident Friday afternoon at Wrestlecon in Los Angeles and hope everyone can learn and be better from it.Steiner was a standout wrestler in college at Michigan before moving into the professional wrestling ranks in 1983.
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