NFL's first transgender cheerleader makes claim about Panthers departure: 'I was cut because I’m trans'

Justine Lindsay, the NFL’s archetypal transgender cheerleader who performed connected the Carolina Panthers’ squad, dished astir the crushed for departing the organization.

Lindsay claimed it had thing to bash with being transgender. Lindsay departed the squad successful August aft being connected the Carolina TopCats since 2022.

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Justine Lindsay, of the Carolina Panthers TopCats, performs earlier the Carolina Panthers and New Orleans Saints instrumentality the tract astatine Bank of America Stadium connected Sept. 25, 2022 successful Charlotte, North Carolina. (Eakin Howard/Getty Images)

"I was chopped due to the fact that I’m trans. I don’t wanna perceive cipher saying ‘She didn’t wanna travel back.’ Why the hellhole would I not wanna travel backmost to an enactment that I’ve been a portion of for 3 years," Lindsay told Gaye Magazine successful a livestream past week.

Lindsay made wide determination was nary sick volition toward the Panthers, but said the squad wasn’t looking astatine the bigger picture.

"I emotion them down. I admit everything that they’ve done for me, but I consciousness similar I was done wrong," the erstwhile cheerleader said.

Justine Lindsay speaks onstage astatine a Night of Pride with GLAAD and NFL connected Feb. 8, 2023 successful Phoenix, Arizona. (Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images for GLAAD)

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"It was similar a large slap successful the look to not lone maine but for the youth," Lindsay said. "And this was close aft Trump became president."

Fox News Digital reached retired to the Panthers for comment

President Donald Trump signed an enforcement bid during the archetypal period of his 2nd term. The bid prohibits schools and colleges that person national funds and are taxable to Title IX from allowing men onto women's sports teams and into women's locker rooms and restrooms.

If acquisition institutions and their diversion associations neglect to comply, they could look investigations and a nonaccomplishment of national funds.

Justine Lindsay, Carolina TopCats performer, walks connected the reddish carpet during a Night of Pride With GLAAD connected Feb. 8, 2023, successful Phoenix.  (Michael Chow/The Republic / USA TODAY NETWORK)

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Several organizations changed their policies to comply with the president’s order, including the NCAA.

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