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Trans athlete Sally Matthews has reimagined the Transgender Pride Flag. Matthews says her experience getting cut from her JV high-school baseball team and then — after she began to identify as a woman — going on to hit .420 and pitch two perfect games for the school’s varsity softball team was transformative for her. She was inspired to make the new flag after seeing viral video of a trans woman spiking a volleyball in the face of a high-school girls volleyball player who was injured in the incident. “For me, that just showed how cis girls can’t compete,” Matthews said. “They want to shut us out because we run faster, jump higher, spike harder, lift more, and hit for a higher average.” She, of course, hopes that all cis athletes recover quickly from any injuries sustained while playing against trans competitors, and in her experience they do; she cited the time she broke the ankle of a cis middle infielder while sliding hard into second base. “It healed for her in five to six weeks and after some minor surgery,” according to Matthews. The new flag adds to the Transgender Pride Flag the image of a cis woman sunk in defeat and despair. Matthews says she’s hoping that, to introduce the public to the flag, a trans woman who can deadlift 300 pounds will hoist the banner after her inevitable victory at a weight-lifting competition this coming weekend in Rhode Island.

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The Trans Athlete Pride Flag

Trans athlete Sally Matthews has reimagined the Transgender Pride Flag. Matthews says her experience getting cut from her JV high-school baseball team and then — after she began to identify as a woman — going on to hit .420 and pitch two perfect games for the school’s varsity softball team was transformative for her. She was inspired to make the new flag after seeing viral video of a trans woman spiking a volleyball in the face of a high-school girls volleyball player who was injured in the incident. “For me, that just showed how cis girls can’t compete,” Matthews said. “They want to shut us out because we run faster, jump higher, spike harder, lift more, and hit for a higher average.” She, of course, hopes that all cis athletes recover quickly from any injuries sustained while playing against trans competitors, and in her experience they do; she cited the time she broke the ankle of a cis middle infielder while sliding hard into second base. “It healed for her in five to six weeks and after some minor surgery,” according to Matthews. The new flag adds to the Transgender Pride Flag the image of a cis woman sunk in defeat and despair. Matthews says she’s hoping that, to introduce the public to the flag, a trans woman who can deadlift 300 pounds will hoist the banner after her inevitable victory at a weight-lifting competition this coming weekend in Rhode Island.