Transgender Olympic Athlete Sparks Controversy

A transgender athlete qualifying for the women's U.S. Olympic team this week sparked controversy on social media.

Earlier this week, Nikki Hiltz, a transgender and nonbinary runner, qualified for the U.S. Olympic team heading to the Paris Olympics later this year.

In 2021, Hiltz said in a social media post that they "came out about" their sexuality when they were 19 years old.

"Yesterday at 26 I came out about my gender identity," Hiltz, who competed in the women's category in the Olympic trials, wrote in the post. "There's nothing like the morning after coming out. This morning there are nerves, excitement and a heart full of gratitude. All I can say is thank you, it feels so good to be seen."

Explaining her transgender identity in more detail, they added: "That means I don't identify with the gender I was assigned at birth. The word I use currently to describe my gender is nonbinary."

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I don't understand the backlash since she was born a female. Am I missing something here?

the narrative has been "trans is always bad" or a while now funny thing is no one gave a shit about it until a few years ago after after a certain book author made some tweets