Lucas Draper, an Oberlin College diver who was born with a different name and a different gender, is not the target of Ohio's trans athlete ban bill, but he's speaking against it.
“It's simultaneously terrifying and freeing,” said former Oberlin College diver Lucas Draper. “In the moment, if I mess this up, I might hurt myself. You want to be as pretty as you can, but also, eventually, you’re going to hit the water.”“I’m actively aware that they’re watching me while I'm diving,” Draper said.
“There were a lot of times where I was like, ‘I want to be doing what the boys are doing. I want to be one of the boys,’” said Draper, “and not even in society says girls have to do this and boys have to do that. It was more of a, ‘I want to be able to do all the things the boys do and look like the boys do.’”“I just kind of felt like everybody must feel like they’re not quite right for the body that they’re in,” Draper said. “I think I’ve always been Lucas. I just wasn’t really aware of it.
“I was afraid my parents were going to tell me that I was confused, that I would change my mind,” Draper said. “You're afraid people aren’t going to accept you; people are no longer going to want to know you.”Twenty-two U.S. states have passed that limit or ban trans athletes from participating in youth sports within the gender they identify. Ohio could be the 23rd.
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