Posted on 08/09/2016 10:17:41 AM PDT by simpson96
They just did it.
Nike debuted the sneaker company's first ever commercial featuring a transgender athlete.
The latest ad shows Chris Mosier, the first transgender athlete to make the U.S. men's Olympic team, comparing his transition to the brand's "Just Do It" mindset.
The 35-year-old duathlete began his transition 2010 and called making it on the Olympic team as a man "a dream come true."
"I didn't know if I would be competitive against men; I just did it. Every success that I've had since then has shown me that anything is really possible," Mosier said in a statement.
"By not stopping myself, not limiting myself and just really going for it, I've learned a lot about myself and also had the opportunity to further the conversation on trans inclusion in sports."
The Chicago product had a tough road just to get to the starting line alongside his fellow runners and cyclists. Mosier couldn't use the bathroom during a June qualifying race for Team USA in North Carolina because of that state's controversial HB2 law
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Just another reason not to watch these Olympics.
I’m sick to death of the liberals who insist that everyone participate these people’s mental illness or be called a bigot.
Love my DVR. Fast-forwarding through all the HiLIARy ads, as well as the hyper-PC propaganda. I did see that one commercial by University of Phoenix featuring the lesbian who overcomes all the hate of the white male straight community to earn her (or is it his?) degree. That reminded me why I love my DVR so much.
I saw the ad, briefly. It’s disgusting. I’ll never buy anything Nike again. That’s not a boycott; it’s disgust.
Same with me.
I won’t be buying any more Nike gear. Down with the perverts!
Just Do “It” seems appropriate here.
Hey Trump! Big audience, here ... where are your ads?
The Olympics is just another leftwing globalist hatefest against Western values.
The world has gone mad.
The NAZIS are vindicated for the 1936 Olympics. Does he/she get his/her metals back?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dora_Ratjen
Glad we’re not watching the Olympics. Of course, I’m sure the ad will soon be everywhere.
I buy addidas and boycott the olympics
In the good old days, we used to condemn the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc when they entered women who had been turned into men with massive steroid injections into the Olympics and other sporting events. Now we celebrate it. The Soviets were stupid. They should have just entered men in the women’s events and claimed that the men gender-identified as women.
Someone would have to pay me to watch the Olympics. It’s right up there with WNBA and the home jewelry shopping network.
Freegards
Kind of makes us look hypocritical for going after the Russians for doping. At least they’re not trying to change the sex of their athletes.
He / she / it couldn't use a bathroom in North Carolina?! The horror!
Just how does the Olympic committee prevent performance enhancing drugs, but allow psychologically disturbed women use drugs to allow them to compete with men?
So it is perfectly OK for “him” to be on hormones/steroids but not other athletes?
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