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Tuesday, June 3, 2014

5 Transgender Activists Who Blazed A Trail For The LGBT Community

From: NewNowNext
Renée Richards

In 1976, Renee Richards was all primed to be in the U.S. Open, except that she had been born male. The United States Tennis Association attempted to ban her from the Open, citing a women-born-women policy, but Richards filed suit.

And in a landmark victory for the trans community, the New York Supreme Court ruled in her. Despite the victory, Richards endured public scrutiny, the loss of family and friends, and brutal discrimination from the tennis world.

ESPN writes:

…That didn’t stop the WTA from trying to Richards her from pro tournaments until she sued, or 25 of the 32 women in the field from withdrawing from the first tournament she played, at age 41. Crowds rooted against her.
If Richards turned on a TV at the time, she could’ve found Johnny Carson and Bob Hope snickering on The Tonight Show that Richards was her own “mixed doubles team” and had “lost everything” by—ha ha—jumping a little too low over the net…[or] Howard Cosell reporting from a tennis court and intoning that what made Richards the subject of international intrigue was, “Is she a man or is she a woman?

Eventually Richards left tennis and returned to a successful ophthalmology practice in California, but her very public battle blazed a trail for future trans athletes like MMA fighter Fallon Fox and NCAA basketball player Kye Allums.

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