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and minority rights. She and her team are fighting for gender equality, supporting other women while kicking ass in their field, and Rapinoe is showing an international audience Americans draw a distinction between respecting the country and supporting #45. She and the women’s team may be the only reason to chant “USA! USA!” in 2019.
The U.S. women opted to name three leaders instead of one on their national roster, but co-captain Rapinoe is certainly the most outspoken activist on the team. Her tangles with Trump go way back. In 2016, she became the first white athlete to kneel during the national anthem, supporting football player Colin Kaepernick’s protest of police brutality against racial minorities.
Today, she calls herself a “walking protest.” That’s in part because she and her teammates, while wearing U.S. national team jerseys, are suing the United States Soccer Federation for “institutionalized gender discrimination,” in their pay, where and how often they compete, how they train and travel, and the medical care and coaching they receive.
Rapinoe has also become a major figure in LGBTQ representation in sports. She came out publicly in 2012, in the midst of her professional career. “People want — they need — to see that there are people like me playing soccer for the good ol’ U.S. of A,” she
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