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Megan Rapinoe's retirement? What we know about USWNT star's future

Megan Rapinoe will retire from international competition after the 2023 World Cup. Earlier this month, the 38-year-old American said she would be hanging up her cleats after the 2023 NWSL season. It will be the end of an incredible career for Rapinoe, who helped the U.S. Women’s National Team win two World Cups and an Olympic gold medal. Throughout her career, Rapinoe has been a vocal supporter…

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Soccer superstar Megan Rapinoe expresses strong support for transgender athletes

In a recent Time cover story interview, Megan Rapinoe said  that she “absolutely” would accept a trans woman on the United States women's national soccer team.

The two-time defending soccer World Cup champion despises policies designed to keep transgender girls and women from playing on female sports teams:

“We as a country are trying to legislate away people’s full humanity... It’s particularly frustrating when women’s sports is weaponized ...Oh, now we care about fairness? Now we care about women’s sports? That’s total bullsh-t. And show me all the trans people who are nefariously taking advantage of being trans in sports. It’s just not happening...

“The most amazing thing about sports is that you play and you’re playing with other people, and you’re having fun and you’re being physically active. We’re putting this all through the lens of competition and winning. But we’re talking about people’s lives. That’s where we have to start.”

According to Time Rapinoe believes that questioning transgender participation in women’s sports, as Martina Navratilova and ESPN anchor Sage Steele have done, does harm that reaches far beyond the athletic field:

“I don’t want to mince words about it. Dave Chappelle making jokes about trans people directly leads to violence, whether it’s verbal or otherwise, against trans people. When Martina or Sage or whoever are talking about this, people aren’t hearing it just in the context of elite sports. They’re saying, ‘The rest of my life, this is how I’m going to treat trans people.’”

Would Rapinoe embrace a transgender woman on the U.S. women’s soccer team, even if that woman took the place of someone assigned female at birth? Her answer: 

 “Absolutely. You’re taking a ‘real’ woman’s place,’ that’s the part of the argument that’s still extremely transphobic. I see trans women as real women. What you’re saying automatically in the argument—you’re sort of telling on yourself already—is you don’t believe these people are women. Therefore, they’re taking the other spot. I don’t feel that way.”

Read the whole Time article here.

See also: US soccer star Megan Rapinoe is supporting trans people’s participation in sports 100% US Soccer Star: Bills to Ban Transgender Kids from Sports Try to Solve a Problem that Doesn’t Exist

#trans #transgender #politics #lgbt #lgbtqa #lesbian #queer #transphobia #transgender athletes #lgbtqia #soccer #sports

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Anti-LGBTQ+ Miss USA runner-up Carrie Prejean trashes soccer icon Megan Rapinoe as a “narcissist”

Carrie Prejean Boller and Megyn Kelly trashed Megan Rapinoe as the out women’s soccer star and activist retired from the sport. In July, the two-time World Cup champ announced her intention to retire at the end of the National Women’s Soccer League’s 2023 season. On Sunday, she played her last game with the team in Chicago, beating South Africa in a 2–0 match. Related: Megan Rapinoe slams Dave Chappelle & Martina Navratilova for transphobia “I see trans women as real women,” the two-time World Cup champ said. Boller joined Kelly on her SiriusXM show earlier this week, and the two took the opportunity to lob insults at Rapinoe. Get the Daily Brief The news you care about, reported on by the people who care about you: Subscribe to our Newsletter “Here’s Megan Rapinoe on her last middle finger to the United States, which made her rich, which gave her a college scholarship, which gave her $7 million a year, reportedly, in endorsements and fees for playing soccer for us on her swan song out the door,” Kelly said before rolling a clip of Rapinoe during the National Anthem at Sunday’s match. Kelly described Rapinoe as “scowling with her hands behind her back” as singer Sa’Rayah performed “The Star-Spangled Banner.” “She doesn’t sing one word, she doesn’t touch her heart. She looks angry,” Kelly continued. In fact, the footage merely showed Rapinoe looking ahead, straight-faced. She was also far from the only person without her hand over her heart and no one else in the clip appeared to be singing along. Nevertheless, former Miss USA contestant and anti-LGBTQ+ activist Boller described Rapinoe as a “narcissist.” “She is the epitome of narcissism, in my opinion,” Boller said. “I mean, think of all the privileges she’s had. Think of all the money that she’s made. ‘Oh, she’s so oppressed and she’s standing up for things.’ No, she’s not. She’s an absolute national disgrace to our country. And most normal people in this, in this country agree with that, that they can’t stand that woman. I’m so glad that she’s done playing soccer. She’s ruined women’s soccer.” Kelly went on to rant that Rapinoe is not “grateful” for having received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Joe Biden or for having her relationship with WNBA player Sue Bird “celebrated by virtually every magazine and in every media corner.” “She sets a terrible example for our little girls,” Kelly said. “She is no role model, good riddance.” In addition to her career in soccer, Rapinoe has been an outspoken LGBTQ+ advocate, speaking out for trans women and girls’ right to play on women’s and girls’ sports teams. Right-wing media has ratcheted up its criticism of Rapinoe in recent months, following the U.S. women’s national team’s loss to Sweden during the 2023 Women’s World Cup this summer. Following the August 6 match, former President Donald Trump took to his social media platform Truth Social to blame Rapinoe and “woke” for the team’s defeat. “Many of our players were openly hostile to America – No other country behaved in such a manner, or even close. WOKE EQUALS FAILURE,” Trump wrote. “Nice shot Megan, the USA is going to Hell!!! MAGA.” Prejean, the former Miss California USA 2009, became a martyr for Christian conservatives when she said she believed “that marriage should be between a man and a woman” at the 2009 Miss USA pageant. Footage from the pageant was later used in ads by the anti-LGBTQ National Organization for Marriage (NOM). Boller returned to the spotlight two years ago, advocating against mask mandates in Encinitas schools. Her Instagram account shows that she is committed to a variety of far-right causes and conspiracy theories. She believes that Donald Trump won the 2020 elections, she opposes the COVID-19 vaccines, and, as several recent posts show, she is still thinking about how she didn’t win that pageant in 2009. http://dlvr.it/SwpfXj

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The lack of self awareness among this tribe never ceases to astound. Words are violence - unless they're used against a Conservative.

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When I queue up new writings to post on here, I intentionally make sure I’m nowhere near the internet when they post. Yesterday morning I drove to a hardware supply store to buy things for another artistic endeavor I’m doing.

On my way up there I listened to a sports show that prides itself on being equally about sports and the inequality and political subtext that occurs within sports.

One of the main co-hosts was out, and when he’s not there problems arise.

Well at some point during the show the other co-host, who is a former NBA player and his guest host, I didn’t catch their name, get on the subject of the new Dave Chappelle comedy special.

I don’t have Netflix, and haven’t been a fan of Dave for awhile now.

At some point during the routine Dave tells a story about how when he had the show on Comedy Central he was told he could say “nigga” all he wanted to, but “faggot” was off limits.

Dave’s response is that he doesn’t think of himself as a nigger, and why is it okay for him to tell jokes that put down blacks, but not gays? Pseudo-intellectual Chappelle. Dave then goes on a ten minute gay joke fest.

I was fourteen when the show came out, and I’m still amazed at the critique of racism and inequality that show does at times, but I also remember every gay joke on that show. The mindfuck that was hearing jokes that critiqued the racist black experience in America, back to back with misogynistic and gay jokes when you’re fourteen and realizing you might not be heterosexual.

Dave shouting “It’s gross” after describing gay sex in the Black Bush skit is my lasting memory of him.

I wonder how Guillermo Díaz feels?

But I’m not here for Dave, my eyes are squarely on the show hosts.

I’ve been writing for a few years now about the noose I feel tightening around me as a queer person.

But here’s the thing, I’m not even out! I don’t go to gay bars in the city, use the hook up apps or do anything that could jeopardize my safety in this conservative area. Yet there is this impending cloud of hate and violence building up in the distance.

Sunday I had the whole fag hat thing, Monday I had to explain to my new effeminate coworker to steer clear of certain employees here.

But back to my main point, I don’t understand how you can preach that your show is about fighting inequality when you praise Megan Rapinoe for how she handled Trump because that was convenient for you, but also praise Chappelle for “pushing the envelope” by telling some faggot jokes in this current climate.

If you aren’t about fighting inequality against everyone the fuck are you doing here?

I found it funny that while posts about how uncomfortable and truncated the life I live is were popping up on my blog. The reasons I feel that way were being validated and reinforced.

#This just happened but I feel like I've written this before