NFL’s first transgender cheerleader says ‘I’m really changing the world’

Justine Lindsay, the NFL‘s first cheerleader to identify as transgender, reflected on the first year of cheerleading with the Carolina TopCats, the cheerleading squad of the Carolina Panthers.

“To get those messages, like those DMs in my phone saying, ‘Your story just really empowered me to be a better parent for my child,’ and just say, ‘Thank you,’ you know, for my story. … It does something to you. It really does,” Lindsay said.

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“It just lets you know, wow, I’m really changing the world,” added the biologically male cheerleader who identifies as female.

Lindsay captured headlines as the first transgender person to make an NFL cheerleading team when joining the TopCats last year. It was first announced on Lindsay’s Instagram in March 2022.

“You are looking at the newest member of the Carolina Panthers TopCats Cheerleader’s @topcats as the first Transgender female,” Lindsay said in a post at the time.

The biologically male dancer noted being “trans” on the original application to the TopCats.

Now the 31-year-old is entering a second season and says, “I love it. Wouldn’t change it for the world.”

“I have a story to tell,” Lindsay said.

The cheerleader often quotes former first lady Michelle Obama’s catchphrase when hearing criticism: “When they go low, you go high.”

Lindsay added, “So I want to be able to get in front of these people and just say: ‘Please relax. Be quiet. Let me say what I have to say.’”

“I’m setting things up for the younger generation,” the TopCats dancer said.

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As a native of North Carolina, Lindsay recently ripped the North Carolina Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, which bans biological men in middle school, high school, and college from joining women’s sports.

“I will fight this until I can’t fight anymore,” Lindsay responded. “It saddens me to see it.”