Posted on 07/15/2015 8:50:23 PM PDT by digger48
Edited on 07/15/2015 9:20:33 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lauren Hill was honored Wednesday night at the ESPY Awards for the best moment.
Hill inspired people with her fight against brain cancer and raised over $1.5 million for cancer research before she died April 10. The Division III women’s basketball player just wanted to play one game in college.
The NCAA agreed to let Hill’s team, Mount St. Joseph, move up its opening game against Hiram College by two weeks because her condition was deteriorating. Xavier University offered its 10,000-seat arena so more people could attend. Tickets sold out in less than an hour.
She ended up playing in four games and made five layups. LeBron James sent her gifts and tweeted how much of an inspiration she was. James looked on as Hill’s parents accepted the trophy at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. [snip]
Playing basketball and raising over a million for cancer research while battling the disease is not more heroic than playing dress up, you transphobes!
Leah Still and Lauren Hill were deserving of this award, not some drag queen who wears a dress but wants to keep his package, that is NO hero..battling cancer every single day, fighting to live now THAT is courage
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