08/17/2025
Justine Lindsay: The NFL'S first Trans cheerleader 🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾💙🖤
First trans NFL cheerleader hopes to influence youth: 'I’m setting things up for the younger generation': The NFL's first transgender cheerleader has entered his second season in the league and described being heartbroken over children not being able to play sports against kids of the opposite gender. He also said that he is sad to see states ban hormonal and medical procedures for youth.
Justine Lindsay, who dances for the Carolina Panthers TopCats cheerleading squad, said that he hopes to influence the next generation with his outspoken ways.
“Everything that I’m going through now, it’s bigger than me,” he told Elle. “I’m setting things up for the younger generation. No one is going to stop this show.”
Lindsay later equated becoming a transgender NFL cheerleader with becoming a doctor:
“I want to change the narrative for my trans sisters and brothers, just to [let them] know that if you have a goal, go for it,” he said. “Turn that dream into a reality. Be an NFL cheerleader, or a doctor or a nurse or whatever you set your mind to.”
The outlet noted that it breaks Lindsay's heart to know that states such as North Carolina are allegedly causing children to lose access to sports. This of course was a roundabout way of saying that male children are not allowed to compete against females in school sports, emphasizing that the boys were categorized as "biologically male.”
“I will fight this until I can’t fight any more,” Lindsay told the outlet. “It saddens me to see it,” he added regarding North Carolina's Fairness in Women’s Sports Act.
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