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Trans Woman To Throw Out First Pitch At American Baseball Game

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A transgender woman will be throwing out the first pitch at an American baseball game for the first time in the country’s history on August 25.

The transgender woman, Tassandra Crush, will be throwing the pitch as part of the St. Louis Cardinals’ LGBT Pride Night, where they will square off against the Tampa Bay Rays at 8:15 p.m. EST. Fans attending the game will receive Cardinals’ hats adorned with a pride rainbow.

Crush transitioned from a man to a woman and currently holds the title as the “Queen of Pride” in St. Louis.

“You don’t really see someone from my group doing things like this,” Crush told KDSK. “I think the most butterflies that I am having is figuring out what to wear.”

Crush also told LGBTQ Nation:

“In these strange times, we never know what tomorrow will hold,” said Crush. “Given this great opportunity, I pray this can make everyone watching think twice … to think twice about every person they come into contact with; to think twice and recognize we all are humans, every trans person is a human, and we all can live and should live in peace together.”

“This is truly an honor and such a humbling opportunity I have been given, not only as the first openly transgender woman to throw the first pitch at the first official Pride Night at Busch Stadium, but as being St. Louis Queen Of Pride 2017,” Crush continued. “This day is a day to remember; to remember how far we as LGBT individuals have come and celebrate how far we are going!. Look to the stars, there’s more space than we all think.”

This is not the first time a transgendered individual has ever thrown out the first pitch of a baseball game, as that distinction belongs to Rachel Clark, who threw the first pitch at a Toronto Blue Jays game in June 2016. But Crush will be the first transgendered individual to throw out the first pitch at a baseball game in America.

The Cardinals had previously irked the LGBT community by allowing Lance Berkman, who has been an outspoken critic of bills allowing men to use women’s bathrooms, to speak on their Christian Day, so the organization featuring Crush will certainly put them back in the good graces of the community.

While the Left will certainly celebrate over Crush throwing the first pitch, it is yet another example of how society is, in the words of Ben Shapiro, “mainstreaming delusion.”

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