“Hi, I’m Nikki and I’m transgender. That is, I do not recognize the gender assigned to me at birth,” he started by saying. She later clarified that the best way to explain her gender is to say that she is fluid: “Sometimes I wake up like a mighty queen and other days I wake up like a boy as a man ,” This is the way. Nikki Hiltz announced on her social networks her status as a non-binary transgender person. A staunch activist to defend the rights of the LGTBI+ community, Hiltz, a 29-year-old American, will be the first non-binary person to compete at the Olympic Games, where she is registered for the women’s 1,500 meters .
“Publishing this is exciting and scary, but I am and always will be a firm believer that vulnerability and visibility are essential to creating social change and acceptance,” she wrote when she decided to go public with her identity. of gender. Nikki does not identify as male or female even though her gender assigned at birth is female. Sport organized under the mantle of international federations and the IOC maintains a traditional two-gender format, and the female, designated at birth, is hosting Hiltz’s debut at the Games.
Her chosen pronoun to identify herself is ‘Elle’ and, for the sake of the sport, she has not undergone any hormonal treatment as it would have affected her eligibility to continue competing as a professional athlete. In fact, the fact that Hiltz was competing as a woman did not raise any debate about competitive justice between rivals and sports establishments. Two years ago, the results of transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, who was physically far superior to her opponents, raised massive criticism that led FINA to ban transgender women from competing in events under of his mantle, a problem that World Athletics also experienced in its time before the emergence of South African Caster Semenya, the best 800-meter specialist in the world until a regulation of permissible levels of testosterone prevented him from competing again in middle-distance events.
Hiltz has no such problem, but she does not consider herself a woman although physically she is one for the IOC. She won the Olympic spot in Oregon in style, and a year ago she broke the United States mile record that had been held since 1985, nearly 40 years, by none other than Mary Decker. Indoor world runner-up in Glasgow, he is a top-level athlete, without a doubt, even if he is not one of the top favorites for the podium in Paris.
For Nikki, giving visibility to the LGTBI+ community is important. To do this, he organizes a famous race every year, and maintains a very strong bond with his family, who support him unconditionally. “I have an incredible support system. My family has always accepted me, when I came out about my sexuality and then when I talked about my gender. I just know that there are a lot of queer people the one who doesn’t have that love and support.”
Source: La Verdad
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