{"id":572047,"date":"2021-06-23T16:37:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T20:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=572047"},"modified":"2021-06-23T16:37:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T20:37:41","slug":"biden-tweets-out-support-for-two-athletes-who-came-out-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-tweets-out-support-for-two-athletes-who-came-out-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Tweets Out Support For Two Athletes Who Came Out This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-tweets-out-support-for-two-athletes-who-came-out-this-week%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=572047&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233606157.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>On Tuesday, President Joe Biden sent a tweet in support of two athletes that came out this week \u2014 Carl Nassib and Kumi Yokoyama \u2014 saying he\u2019s \u201cproud\u201d of their courage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cTo Carl Nassib and Kumi Yokoyama \u2013 two prominent, inspiring athletes who came out this week: I\u2019m so proud of your courage,\u201d Biden wrote in a tweet. \u201cBecause of you, countless kids around the world are seeing themselves in a new light today.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.4\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">To Carl Nassib and Kumi Yokoyama \u2013 two prominent, inspiring athletes who came out this week: I\u2019m so proud of your courage. Because of you, countless kids around the world are seeing themselves in a new light today.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 President Biden (@POTUS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS\/status\/1407506870181453824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 23, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Nassib \u2014 a defensive end for the Las Vegas Raiders \u2014 became the first active NFL player to announce that he was gay in an Instagram post on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/carl-nassib-becomes-first-active-nfl-player-to-come-out-as-gay\"><span>Monday<\/span><\/a><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhat\u2019s up, people?\u201d Nassib <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CQZXu_8nyy_\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;ig_rid=e606916d-65f9-49c3-9f9b-a2e038d40964\">posted<\/a> on Instagram. \u201cI\u2019m at my house in West Chester, Pennsylvania. I just wanted to take a quick moment to say that I\u2019m gay. I\u2019ve been meaning to do this for a while now but finally feel comfortable getting it off my chest. I really have the best life, I have the best family, friends and job a guy can ask for.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019m a pretty private person, so I hope you guys know that I\u2019m not doing this for attention. I just think that representation and visibility are so important. I actually hope that one day, videos like this and the whole coming out process are just not necessary. But until then, I will do my best and do my part to cultivate a culture that\u2019s accepting and compassionate, and I\u2019m going to start by donating $100,000 to The Trevor Project. They\u2019re an incredible organization, they\u2019re the number-one suicide prevention service for LGBTQ youth in America and they\u2019re truly doing incredible things. I\u2019m very excited to be a part of it and help in any way that I can and I\u2019m really pumped to see what the future holds.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On Tuesday, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/carl-nassib-has-top-selling-nfl-jersey-after-coming-out-as-gay\"><span>The Daily Wire <\/span><\/a><span>reported that Nassib had the top-selling jersey on the Fanatics platform. Many within the sports community came out in support of Nassib, including Warren Moon, who was the first black quarterback elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cReally proud of Carl Nassib,\u201d Moon wrote on Twitter. \u201cThe first active football player to ever do so. I played with several guys who never were comfortable enough to go public. They were great teammates, &#038; obviously very talented.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.41393442623\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Really proud of Carl Nassib. The first  active football player to ever do so. I played with several guys who never were comfortable enough to go public. They were great teammates, &#038; obviously very talented.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Warren Moon (@WMoon1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WMoon1\/status\/1407152242440871941?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>On <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/japanese-soccer-player-on-womens-world-cup-team-comes-out-as-transgender-man\"><span>Tuesday<\/span><\/a><span>, a member of Japan\u2019s women\u2019s national team \u2014 Kumi Yokoyama \u2014 came out as a transgender man. Yokoyama played for Japan in the 2019 World Cup and said she was encouraged to come out after living in Germany and the United States.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019ve dated several women over the years but I had to stay closeted in Japan,\u201d Yokoyama <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/washington-spirit\/story\/4416541\/washington-spirits-kumi-yokoyama-comes-out-as-transgender-it-would-be-harder-to-live-closeted\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span>. \u201cIn Japan, I\u2019d always be asked if I had a boyfriend, but here [in the United States] I\u2019m asked if I have a boyfriend or girlfriend.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhen my girlfriend said there was no reason for me to stay closeted, it really hit me. Coming out wasn\u2019t something I was enthusiastic about, but if I think about my life going forward, it would be harder to live closeted, so I found the courage to come out.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Biden has a checkered history when it comes to the topic of gay rights.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/haworth-5-of-bidens-most-significant-flip-flops\"><span>The Daily Wire<\/span><\/a><span>, Biden voted to cut off funding for schools that taught the acceptance of homosexuality in 1994 and voted in favor of the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. In 2006, Biden confirmed his position that \u201cmarriage is between a man and a woman.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Biden and his administrations\u2019 advocacy for transgender participation in sports come at a time when multiple states across the country have signed laws protecting the rights of girls and women competing in athletics. In June, Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/if-we-feel-the-civil-rights-are-being-violated-we-will-act-u-s-secretary-of-education-miguel-cardona-on-transgender-athletes-in-womens-sports\">signed<\/a> a bill into law \u2014 the \u201cFairness in Women\u2019s Sports Act\u201d \u2014 which prohibits biological men from competing against female athletes.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, President Joe Biden sent a tweet in support of two athletes that came out this week \u2014 Carl Nassib and Kumi Yokoyama \u2014 saying he\u2019s \u201cproud\u201d of their &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2281142,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233606157.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Tweets Out Support For Two Athletes Who Came Out This Week","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233606157.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Tweets Out Support For Two Athletes Who Came Out This Week","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}