Bowling Green State University's We Are One Team (WA1T) will host a speaking event on November 16 featuring a transgender athlete. WA1T aims to use sports to address social justice issues like LGBTQ rights. The transgender speaker will discuss their experiences facing injustice as a transgender person and how sport has helped them create awareness of LGBTQ issues.

1.
News
Release
For
Immediate
Release
WA1T
Hosts
Transitioning
Transgender
Athlete
Speaker
Bowling
Green,
OH,
November
5,
2015
–
Bowling
Green
State
University’s
We
Are
One
Team
(WA1T)
hosts
a
transgender
athlete
in
transition
to
speak
Saturday,
November
16
at
the
(location/room
number),
(address
of
location),
at
(time
of
event).
We
Are
One
Team
is
a
strong
group
of
advocates
of
positive
social
change
at
BGSU
who
are
united
by
a
love
of
sport.
WA1T
utilizes
sports
to
address
multiple
social
justice
issues
including
gender
equality,
LGBTQ
issues,
racism
and
racist
assumptions,
sexism
and
sexist
assumptions,
body
image,
stereotypes
and
bullying.
We
Are
One
Team’s
mission
is
to
use
sport
as
a
forum
to
create
a
dialogue
and
to
promote
friendship
between
stereotyped
groups
on
campus,
to
athletics,
minority
groups,
faculty,
administration,
and
the
general
student
body.
We
Are
One
Team
aims
to
strengthen
the
sense
of
community
by
creating
awareness
of
social
injustice
and
by
facilitating
an
environment
that
values
inclusion,
diversity,
and
tolerance.
The
speaker
will
create
an
open
discussion
about
the
injustices
he
has
a
faced
as
a
transgender
man,
how
sport
has
let
him
be
able
to
create
awareness
of
LGBTQ
issues
to
ensure
that
all
voices
are
heard.
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For
more
information,
contact:
Yannick
Kluch
ykluch@bgsu.edu
or
WeAreOneTeam.BG@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/WeAreOneTeamBG/