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Japanese soccer player yokoyama comes out as transgender

Tokyo (ap) — eastern soccer participant kumi yokoyama stated they're transgender — a revelation praised inside the u. S. Wherein they play inside the national ladies’s football league however an identification no longer legally recognized in japan. The 27-yr-old forward for the washington spirit said they felt extra comfy with their personal gender identity whilst residing inside the u. S. A., in which teammates and friends are greater open to gender and sexual variety. 토토사이트

 



 

“i’m popping out now,” yokoyama stated in a video communicate on former teammate yuki nagasato’s youtube channel. “inside the destiny, i want to cease football and live as a man.”

yokoyama's revelation became praised by using president joe biden.

“to carl nassib and kumi yokoyama – two outstanding, inspiring athletes who got here out this week: i’m so happy with your braveness. Due to you, endless kids around the sector are seeing themselves in a brand new light these days," biden tweeted. Nassib is the primary active nfl player to pop out as gay. The spirit additionally expressed the group's support and satisfaction in yokoyama. “thank you for showing the world it's good enough to embody who you're!” the crew tweeted, including that the participant uses they/them pronouns. Aid and consciousness of gender and sexual variety has slowly grown in japan, but lgbtq humans lack many legal protections and regularly go through discrimination, inflicting many to hide their sexual identities. An equality law pushed through rights businesses turned into scrapped these days due to competition from the conservative ruling party. Transgender people in japan additionally must have their reproductive organs removed to have their gender identified on professional files — a requirement that human rights and medical companies criticize as inhuman and unnecessary and say need to give up. Yokoyama said they weren't captivated with popping out but it became a desire made whilst thinking about the future and that it might be harder to stay closeted. “i'd now not have pop out in japan," they said. They thanked their teammates, pals and lady friend for his or her assist and braveness. Yokoyama performed for japan at the 2019 women’s global cup in france and moved from eastern membership ac nagano parceiro to the washington spirit. Yokoyama stated they felt a strong strain to comply and stay closeted in japan but hoped to stay as a person after retiring as a professional football participant and to assist boost awareness for sexual minorities in japan.

“greater humans in japan are getting familiar with the phrase lgbtq and it’s visible greater (within the media), but i assume attention won’t develop except humans like myself pop out and raise our voices,” yokoyama stated.