How climbing helped this transgender athlete explore their identity

Lor Sabourin climbing Arizona's "Cousin of Death"

  Rock climbing is physically and mentally demanding, but for Lor Sabourin, it represents much more than just sport. Being a trans climber, Sabourin welcomes the vulnerability that climbing forces you to confront. #CNN #News

 

The CNN video on Youtube was downvoted by an overwhelming number of biggots and haters. They made it clear by their comments that they are cowards and afraid of trans people who are able to accomplish their goals.

The full version of the video below is well worth watching.

The approximate line of Cousin of Death (5.13+, 5 pitches) in northern Arizona. [Photo] Lor Sabourin

On Nov 29, 2020, Lor Sabourin made a no-falls free ascent of the trad-climbing testpiece, Cousin of Death—a five pitch, 5.13+ in northern Arizona (Apache, Hopi, Pueblo and Hohokam territory). Three of the route's five pitches are 5.13b or harder. Lor's climb was the first integral ascent of the route (the individual pitches were all freed last year by local climber, Joel Unema, who established the route with Blake McCord a few years ago).

Students enraged over proposed renaming of Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Chappelle's alma mater

Students from David Chappelle's high school alma mater, Duke Ellington School of the Arts are enraged that the school could be bought off by him, and have promised direct action should the school proceed as planned. 

 LGBTQI and allied students at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts have promised a walkout over a planned fundraiser and renaming of the school in light of Chappelle's last special 'the closer'.

They have ended, at least temporarily, the administration's plan to rename the school after Chappelle in exchange for his donations, which the school stated was in the millions of dollars.

According to The Washington Post the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, in Northwest D.C., will postpone renaming its theater after comedian Dave Chappelle, one of the school’s most famous graduates, amid concerns from students about his recent Netflix special, the school said in a statement Friday. 

A dedication was originally planned for Nov. 23. But the school said in a statement that “moving forward with the event … without first addressing questions and concerns from members of the Ellington Community would be a missed opportunity for a teachable moment.”

While LGBTQ organizations, Netflix employees and some Duke Ellington students have criticized Chappelle’s latest special, “The Closer,” for his comments about transgender people and the LGBTQ community, the renaming of the theater will go forward on April 22, the school said..

Teachable moment = Force art students to accept the administration's opinion or face expulsion. #MoneyMatters more than #BlackTransLivesMatter

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Chappelle speaking as if from personal experience skewered transgender vaginas as  'beyond pussy' and 'pussy 2.0' much to the delight of his audience.

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A beautiful young transgender woman took her life shortly after Chappell befriended and had her open for him, then beat down on her in an earlier performance. 

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Chappell self-identified in the closer as a member of 'Team TERF' which is an acronym for Transgender Exclusionary Radical Feminist. The irony of this is TERFs hate the name or being pigeonholed into an agenda. And by doing so while beating down on transgender people Chappelle was attacking the very base of his audience.

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Later Chappelle crowed about his sell-out crowd during his first appearance following 'the closer'.

However, he shouldn't get too used to that since TERFs comprise a tiny minority of feminists and white supremacists who applaud his bashing of LGBT people on line, won't be buying tickets for future performances for obvious reasons.