The influencer and trans activist Dylan Mulvaney has published on his social networks a paid collaboration with Nike in which he announces leggings and a sports bra from the brand, which has outraged many users of social networks and recognized faces of the sport since, According to media outlets such as the Daily Mail, Mulvaney, who identifies as a woman, has not undergone sex change surgery.
British Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies is leading the boycott of Nike following the decision to sign an advertising deal to advertise bras with Mulvaney. This swimmer who won silver at the Moscow Olympic Games in 1980 assures that this decision by Nike represents a “step back” for women’s sport.
“It’s very frustrating. We take two steps forward with World Athletics and Swim England protecting women’s sport and then Nike does this,” he told GB News. She is referring to the measure announced a few days ago by the International Athletics Federation to prevent trans athletes from competing in international women’s events.
Caitlyn Jenner, who was an Olympic medalist – who made the gender transition in 2015 and is also popular for having been a stepfather to the Kardashians – has assured that Nike’s association with the trans influencer is “an outrage”. Jenner has stressed a series of tweets that for her, who grew up “admiring” Phil Knight -the founder of Nike- it is “a shame” to see how such an emblematic company acts like this.
“We can be inclusive, but not at the expense of the majority of people, and you can have some decency while still being inclusive. This is a scandal,” he said. And it is that, in her opinion, inclusivity goes through “stop trying to erase women.” “The differences between men and women are real and they’re a good thing. It doesn’t make trans people a bad thing either,” she insists.
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