With the Summer Olympics just around the corner, the United States will send hundreds of top athletes to Paris, France, to compete for the gold medal in red, white and blue. Some of these athletes identify as “trans non-binary,” prefer “they/them” pronouns, and were onceHarming transgender people“
On Sunday, 29-year-old middle-distance runner Nikki Hiltz won the 1500 meters at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon, earning her a spot in Paris for her first Olympic Games. Hiltz and 2020 Tokyo Olympic veteran Elle St. Pierre were neck and neck throughout the race, but Hiltz gained momentum in the final straight and crossed the finish line in a personal best of 3 minutes, 55.33 seconds, beating St. Pierre’s previous record. Olympic Qualification Record It was reduced by 2.5 seconds.
“Some days I wake up feeling like a powerful queen, other days I wake up just a man, and other days I identify completely outside of the gender binary.”
Hiltz sees this victory not just as a personal one, but also as a victory for the LGBTQ “community”: “This isn’t just a victory for me, it’s the last day of Pride Month.” She said“I wanted to do this for my community.”
“I felt the love and support from LGBTQ people throughout the race,” Hiltz said. “You all got me through the last 100 miles.” [meters]” she argued.
Fellow runners St. Pierre and Emily McKay will also be competing. Team USA The opening ceremony of the 2024 Games in Paris will begin on July 26.
Hiltz was a star athlete during his time with the University of Arkansas Razorbacks. UA Bio She claims to have been a member of the girls’ track and field team, uses female pronouns throughout, and even refers to herself as her parents’ “daughter.”
But somewhere along the way, Hiltz decided she didn’t like the label of woman, and in 2021 she publicly announced that she was “transgender.” “It means that I don’t identify with the gender I was assigned at birth,” she explained. Pink Newsmedia outlets that promote transgender and other LGBTQ issues.
She also described herself as “gender fluid”: “Some days I wake up feeling like a powerful queen, other days I wake up just a man, and other days I identify as completely outside of the gender binary,” she helpfully explained.
Her Instagram account is full of photos from LGBTQ-related events and activism, and she also posts a lot of pictures with her girlfriend, Emma G, who, according to PinkNews, is the first LGBTQ+ athlete to compete at the LDS Church-run Brigham Young University.
another Instagram Posts“Hiltz told NBC and its correspondents, [her] “The pronouns are correct,” she said during a broadcast about another women’s 1,500m race, which she won last year.
While Hiltz may struggle to identify with her gender in her day-to-day life, when she travels to France she will compete in the women’s division against competitors she describes as “people I love deeply.”[s] Respect and[s]”
In 2021, the International Olympic Committee sidestepped the transgender issue by leaving it up to the governing bodies of each sport, and World Athletics, which governs international athletics, banned men from competing in women’s events. Women who identify as transgender can compete in men’s events “if they submit a signed declaration of gender identity,” NBC News reported.
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