{"id":15522,"date":"2025-11-24T05:52:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T05:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/?p=15522"},"modified":"2025-11-24T05:54:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T05:54:29","slug":"nfls-first-transgender-cheerleader-claims-panthers-departure-was-due-to-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/?p=15522","title":{"rendered":"NFL&#8217;s First Transgender Cheerleader Claims Panthers Departure Was Due to Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"1\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Justine Lindsay, who made history as the <b>NFL&#8217;s first openly transgender cheerleader<\/b> while performing with the Carolina Panthers&#8217; squad, has publicly claimed that her departure from the organization was directly related to her gender identity. Lindsay, who was a member of the Carolina TopCats since 2022, left the team in August.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;I was cut because I\u2019m trans. I don\u2019t wanna hear nobody saying \u2018She didn\u2019t wanna come back.\u2019 Why the hell would I not wanna come back to an organization that I\u2019ve been a part of for three years,&#8221; Lindsay revealed during a livestream interview with Gaye Magazine last week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1440\/810\/nfl-panthers-justine-lindsay-112325-2.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Despite the serious accusation, Lindsay expressed that she holds <b>no ill will toward the Panthers<\/b>. &#8220;I love them down. I appreciate everything that they\u2019ve done for me, but I feel like I was done wrong,&#8221; the former cheerleader stated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Lindsay believes the team failed to consider the wider impact of their decision. &#8220;It was like a big slap in the face to not only me but for the youth,&#8221; she said. She also tied the timing of her departure to a broader political context, adding, &#8220;And this was right after Trump became president.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The comment references an <b>executive order<\/b> signed by President Donald Trump during the first month of his second term. That order prohibits schools and colleges receiving federal funds and subject to Title IX from allowing men onto women&#8217;s sports teams and into women&#8217;s locker rooms and restrooms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"6\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Fox News Digital has reached out to the Carolina Panthers for comment regarding Lindsay&#8217;s claims. Lindsay&#8217;s groundbreaking role had previously been celebrated as a major step for inclusion in professional sports.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Crockett: Polling Says I Can Win Texas Sentate Seat\" src=\"https:\/\/video.bb-content.media\/videos\/embed\/f31e4ac2-50ce-4fbb-a4fa-cb7061c340f0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-forms\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justine Lindsay, who made history as the NFL&#8217;s first openly transgender cheerleader while performing with the Carolina Panthers&#8217; squad, has publicly claimed that her departure from the organization was directly related to her gender identity. Lindsay, who was a member of the Carolina TopCats since 2022, left the team in August. &#8220;I was cut because&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}