Rainbow Media Claims ‘Team LGBTQ’ Took 12th Place In Olympic Medals

“Team LGBTQ” did remarkably well in the 2022 Winter Olympics, SBNation Outsports reports. Did you even know there was a “Team LGBTQ?” Well, it exists only in the imaginative minds of Outsports, the blog dedicated to celebrating homosexuality and gender confusion. It’s a mythical team of alphabet soup athletes that won enough medals to allegedly have finished 12^th in the final medal count.

Cyd Zeigler, the homosexual founder of Outsports, envisioned the “Team LGBTQ” concept and asked, “what if these athletes were a country themselves, flying the rainbow flag and blaring Diana Ross’ ‘I’m Coming Out’ for their national anthem?” With 36 athletes from 14 countries celebrating a myriad of gender identities in Beijing, the recent Winter Olympics were the most “out” Winter Games ever.

His fake team should be 12^Th place, Zeigler had to fudge the numbers. He simply counted all medal-winning. Teams that had at least one LGBTQ member, such as Canada’s women’s hockey team with its seven lesbians. His dream team is now tied with Slovakia 16th because of the lack of rainbow people winning medals.

Also, Outsports gave out the equivalent of participation ribbons. Gus Kenworthy won silver in the Halfpipe for Team USA at the 2014 Sochi Olympics. He competed for Britain this time and finished 8th. China was left empty-handed.

But medals are not the only thing that matters. Jim Buzinski, of Outsports, said “Kenworthy kissing his boyfriend live on national TV prior to his Olympic competition in 2018 is still one of the great LGBTQ sports moments ever.”

All the positive news is not good. Out of these Olympics, Outsports reported there is one troubling aspect that must be addressed.

With all the alphabet letters swirling around the 2022 Winter Olympics, it was hard for figure skating television broadcaster Tara Lipinski (seen in above photo with Johnny Weir) to keep track of them. Because of insensitive types like her and broadcast colleague Weir, the letters “NB” may soon be working their way into the LGBTQ lexicon. She made the dreadful mistake of repeatedly misgendering American pairs figure skater Timothy LeDuc as “he.”

Pronoun cop Zeigler wrote a 754-word beating-down that Outsports used to slap her. He said it’s not like she hadn’t been warned in advance.

“NBC again misgendered a nonbinary athlete at the Olympics,” Zeigler raged. “This time it was Tara Lipinski referring to pairs figure skater Timothy LeDuc several times as ‘he,’ when LeDuc uses ‘they’ pronouns.” This egregious mistake happened after “weeks of conversation in the media specifically about LeDuc’s pronouns.” She should have known better.

“Everyone knew what to do and they wanted to do the right thing,” Zeigler lectured. “And still a nonbinary athlete was accidentally misgendered multiple times.” Lipinski’s broadcast partner Weir was also called out for ignoring gender norms on national TV for years.

My bad, Lipinski admitted. “I realize that I used the wrong pronouns for Tim,” Lipinski said after her serious offense. “I will do better. Tim you deserve that.” Zeigler credited her for “genuine apology,” before his anger flared up again: “Yet, the mistake was made. Several times,” Zeigler said while struggling to forgive and forget.

Zeigler complained that this crisis demonstrates the hard realities faced by nonbinary athletes in today’s sports. Even though LeDuc is a man, looks like a man and has a man’s name and chromosomes. 

Outsports’ own nonbinary contributing writer Brian Bell called it a simmering frustration when people like Lipinski misgender nonbinary folks. For Outsports, misgendering is a huge issue, but China’s human rights violations were not even on the rainbow blog’s radar.