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Jul 30, 2021 · David Lazar. Published July 30, 2021, 12:00 p.m. ET. Chelsea Wolfe is making history as the first transgender athlete to go to the Olympics. The American BMX rider will be a reserve for Team USA ...
Jun 24, 2021 · Advertisement: A Facebook post allegedly from March 2020 and shared by Chelsea Wolfe, a freestyle BMX biker who is the first transgender woman to join the U.S. Olympic team, reportedly said that ...
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When she woke up on July 14, Chelsea Wolfe’s life was—in her own words—perfect. Her tickets were booked for Scotland, her registration for Freestyle BMX as part of Team USA was confirmed ...
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The Florida native, 28, sparked massive outrage online when her comments from a year ago about burning the US flag were outed in the wake of her Olympic selection. Beaming with pride in the photos she shared with her 7,700 Instagram followers, Wolfe had written a lengthy caption expressing gratitude at the selection, on June 12. “I am positively a ...
With regards to her Facebook post from March 2020, Wolfe clarified to Fox News recently: "One of the reasons why I work so hard to represent the United States in international competition is to show the world that this country has morals and values, that it’s not all of the bad things that we’re known for. I take a stand against fascism because I c...
"Chelsea Wolfe needs to be removed from the team representing the United States of America in the Olympics. Anybody who hates America enough to want to burn the American flag on the podium don't deserve to be on the Olympic stage," tweeted one person. Another shared: "#ChelseaWolfe is disgusting. If you hate the #USA so much, leave. He is a mentall...
Jun 22, 2021 · A transgender woman who qualified as an alternate for Team USA ’s BMX freestyle event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games once said she wanted to compete so she could “burn a US flag on the podium.”. Chelsea Wolfe from Florida has been BMX racing from the age of six, and started competing in freestyle competitions in her home state in 2014.
Jun 21, 2021 · Earlier this month, Wolfe posted about what it meant to qualify as an alternate for the Olympics as a transgender athlete. "I searched for so long trying to find out if there had ever been a professional trans bmx rider to show me that who I am would be okay and unfortunately I found no one," Wolfe wrote on Instagram on June 12.
Jan 30, 2024 · Currently, 23 U.S. states have laws that ban trans youth from playing high school sports. Twenty-one of those states ban trans college student athletes from participating in sports, even if their sport has trans inclusive policies, according to TransAthlete.com. A total of 12 anti-trans sports laws were passed in 2023.
