Arthur Ashe Courage Award

If you're a regular reader, you know that every month I include the admonition to "get real, get tough, and get going." For me, it's a way of summarizing the attributes that I believe are required for mental toughness. A brief explanation of each: • Get real This is about rigorous, relentless honesty and objectivity. It's about confronting things as they are, not as we'd like them to be. • Get tough This step deals with developing the thick skin and character required to be tough-minded as a…

surrounding Caitlyn Jenner changed due to her appearance. When people talk about Jenner, they don’t talk about her years competing in the Olympics, rather they discuss whether or not they liked her dress when she gave her acceptance speech for the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPYS. “Acts and gestures, articulated and enacted desires create the illusion of an interior and organizing gender core,” wrote Butler (Norton, 2549). Now that Jenner expresses her true womanly self, her body, in all…

blishes that she wants her series to focus on the increased acceptance of transgender people. She says, “People don’t understand looking in the mirror, and nothing seems right, putting on clothes that you just don’t really identify with. This is about getting to be who you really are” (Greco “Watch a New Promo for Caitlyn Jenner’s Docuseries”) Although most reality TV shows are viewed as superficial, I Am Cait serves to educate. The programming documents Jenner’s gender transition, her changing…

Athletes in Youth Sports The role of transgender athletes has become a prominent social issue. This is largely due to 1976 Olympic Decathlon Gold Medalist, Caitlyn Jenner’s high-profile transition. In July 2015, Jenner was awarded the “Arthur Ashe Courage Award” at the ESPYs. She asked that transgender youth be “…given the chance to play sports as who they really are…” and encouraged her peers in the sports world to make this one of their subjects of discussion (Kirkpatrick). High school,…

In recent years, the issue concerning transgender athletes being allowed to choose the teams they would like to play on has become an increasing problem. Our generation was never truly aware of how big of a problem this was to the transgender community until just recently when Caitlyn Jenner (formerly Bruce Jenner) came out as transgender and addressed the problem in her speech at the ESPYS. This really open our eyes and even infuriated some people, therefore, I believe that there needs to be…