Chris Mosier, a triathlete who was the first transgender member of America’s national athletics team, has criticised the increasing hostility towards trans sportspeople and called for greater LGBTQ+ inclusion.
Mosier, who has also been credited with encouraging the International Olympic Committee to change its policy on trans athletes, spoke to CBS News about his struggles as a trans man in the sporting world: “Doing an ironman race [a long-distance triathlon] is nothing compared to me just existing in the world and some of the pain and the hurt that I had felt up to that point in identifying as trans and having interactions with the world.”He said many people who make inappropriate comments about trans people “lack a basic knowledge and.