National Center for Transgender Equality Action Fund

We Support Transgender Youth Athletes

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John,

Today, we are taking part in National Youth Sports Day, a day that
brings awareness to the physical and mental health benefits that
sports bring to young people's lives across the country. On this
National Youth Sports Day, we are speaking up for ALL youth athletes,
including those who are transgender.

Being a kid is hard enough, and can be particularly difficult for
transgender students, who often face bullying and harassment. With so
much uncertainty in young people's lives these days, it is
important to keep some semblance of normalcy in any way we can.
Politicians shouldn't make this worse by banning students from
being part of a team and playing the sports they love.

Help us in our fight to #SupportTransAthletes and #ProtectTransKids
from discrimination. Donate $25, or whatever you can, today.

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When transgender athletes are excluded from participating on teams as
their true selves, they are often left out from sports altogether.
Transgender youth simply want to play the sport they love and be a
part of a team, just like any other kid, but extremist politicians are
trying to stop them. Who are these politicians to rob them of the
important life lessons that come with playing on a team like teamwork,
self-discipline, success, and failure?

Our laws should protect transgender youth, not encourage
discrimination against them. That's why we were proud to stand
with over 60 civil rights organizations to call on the NCAA to
relocate their championship events from Idaho, due to the state
passing dangerous legislation that bans transgender athletes from
participating in school sports. Research shows that when states adopt
policies that create new barriers for transgender athletes from
participating in sports, participation in sports among all LGBTQ youth
drops. That's why it's so important to stand up for ALL
youth athletes, because diversity and inclusion benefit everyone.

We won't stop fighting for trans youth. Not now, not tomorrow,
not ever. We owe it to the next generation to fight for equality on
the field, on the pitch, in the halls of Congress--anywhere
discrimination lives.

If you #SupportTransAthletes and want to #ProtectTransKids, join our
fight by contributing $25, or whatever you can, today.

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Sincerely,

Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen

Deputy Executive Director for Policy and Action

P.S. -- help us spread the message that trans kids deserve the same
opportunities to play the sports they love, just like their peers on
our Facebook and Twitter pages.
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