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Meet Justine Lindsay, the NFL’s first openly trans cheerleader
A post shared by Justine Simone Lindsay (@jus_lindsay_)Talk about the “Pride of the Carolinas”! Justine Lindsay publicly came out as transgender in the same Instagram post in which she announced she had joined the Carolina Panthers’ TopCats cheerleading squad.With that achievement, the 29-year-old became the first openly trans NFL cheerleader, as BuzzFeed News reported this month.Lindsay told the site she was “so scared” to come out on Instagram, thinking that there’s “some things you can’t post.”But Lindsay uploaded the post anyway. “I just felt like when I posted it, whatever reaction I get from everyone, it does not matter,” she said.