{"id":10273,"date":"2021-06-23T16:27:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T10:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=115193"},"modified":"2021-06-23T16:27:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T10:57:26","slug":"us-president-biden-praises-athlete-yokoyama-for-coming-out-as-transgender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/us-president-biden-praises-athlete-yokoyama-for-coming-out-as-transgender\/","title":{"rendered":"US President Biden praises athlete Yokoyama for coming out as transgender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Joe Biden expressed admiration for the courage of Japanese women\u2019s football forward Kumi Yokoyama for coming out as a transgender man.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese soccer player Kumi Yokoyama said, \u201cthey are transgender \u2014 which was praised in the United States where they play in the National Women\u2019s Soccer League but it\u2019s an identity that is not legally recognized in Japan.\u201d <span style=\"text-transform: initial\">The 27-year-old forward for the Washington Spirit said they felt more comfortable with their own gender identity while living in the United States, where gender and sexual diversity is more accepted by teammates and friends.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m coming out now,\u201d Yokoyama said in a video talk on former teammate Yuki Nagasato\u2019s YouTube channel. <span style=\"text-transform: initial\">\u201cIn the future, I want to quit soccer and live as a man.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yokoyama\u2019s revelation was praised by President Joe Biden. <span style=\"text-transform: initial\">\u201cTo Carl Nassib and Kumi Yokoyama \u2013 two prominent, inspiring athletes who came out this week: I\u2019m so proud of your courage. Because of you, countless kids around the world are seeing themselves in a new light today,\u201d Biden tweeted. Carl Nassib is the first active NFL player to come out as gay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yokoyama played for Japan at the 2019 Women\u2019s World Cup in France and moved from Japanese club AC Nagano Parceiro to the Washington Spirit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yokoyama\u2019s revelation was praised by US President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":32781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[284,493,207,1802,241,1803],"class_list":["post-10273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-france","tag-japan","tag-joe-biden","tag-nfl","tag-united-states","tag-womens-world-cup"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}