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Rio Pearlstein is a 17-year-old golfer at Milton Academy in Massachusetts and has been a rising star in youth golf since he was 11. Two years ago, he was his region's player of the year. That was the same year he came out as a trans boy while pushing through being at the top of his game, and continuing to press toward a goals of playing golf in college which has been his dream. It is a dream that has him willing to put his other life goal on hold for in a sense. He is delaying the next stage of transition to reach that summit, with all the difficulties therein. Karleigh Webb sat down with this young talent to look at navigating sport as a trans boy playing a girls team, navigating being trans in a sporting structure that is cis-centered, and finding the love of the game and competition through it all. Also This Week The Comedy News Anchors Strike Back What's The Matter With Michigan? Still Talking About Trans People, Without Talking To Trans People The Latest Anti-Trans Boycott Learn more about your ad

Happy Saturday! To commemorate National Coming Out Day, Alex looks at the lack of out male LGBTQ athletes, and some of the surprising real reasons why. Follow Alex on Twitter, @AlexReimer1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, Lovelies! This week we welcome "The Spice Ranger" Kayla Sparks to the show! She and Brian Bell discuss the 20th anniversary of her pro wrestling debut at age 14, coming back to the ring after 14 years away, coming out and how she advocates for the LGBTQ through pro wrestling. Sparks also chats her appearances with AEW and WWE, and living her dream by wrestling in a WWE ring for the first time. Follow Kayla Sparks on Twitter: @KaylaSparks247 Grab LGBT In The Ring merch on Brainbuster Tees Follow Brian Bell on Twitter: @WonderboyOTM Follow LGBT In The Ring on Twitter: @LGBTRingPod  The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital! Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and Bandcamp. Check out IndependentWrestling.tv for the best in current and classic independent pro wrestling, including live events

"You have to be out in the world to let people know that you are in the world." One of the mentors of our host Karleigh Webb told her that at the start of her own journey. Last week, a young television reporter in Des Moines, Iowa acted on that axiom boldly. Nora J.S. Reichardt, a bright-eyed 24-year-old working up through the ranks at WOI-TV not just covered the news, last week she was the news. Reichardt stepped into her truth as a transgender woman and shared the story with most of the nation's 72nd-largest television market. Her step forward made national and global news...and she sat down with Karleigh, a former local reporter-anchor herself, to talk about coming out, inviting in, trans joy, local television news...and being a fan of your Friendly Neighborhood Spiderman! ALSO THIS WEEK Coach Ingram meets Dr. Phil A Spidey Smackdown? Karleigh's Coming Out Journey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Avid Mets fan Paul Sanders joins D.Gil to discuss the Mets and Braves 2022 season. Did the Mets collapse or did the Braves just want the division more? Listen to hear our hot takes on the season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Happy Saturday! On this week's show, Alex speaks with Eyal Feldman, CEO of Boy Butter, about why his lube company is now advertising during NFL games. Alex also gives his review of "Bros." He wasn't that impressed. Follow Alex on Twitter, @AlexReimer1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, Lovelies! This week we welcome 1/3 of The Caution (caution), "The Link to the Future" Anton Voorhees, to the show! He and Brian Bell discuss his work with Hoodslam, how The Caution was formed and helping build Hoodslam's sibling promotion GLAM. Anton also discusses his coming out post from earlier this year and why it was personally difficult for him to make it. Follow Anton Voorhees on Twitter: @link2futureftf Grab LGBT In The Ring merch on Brainbuster Tees Follow Brian Bell on Twitter: @WonderboyOTM Follow LGBT In The Ring on Twitter: @LGBTRingPod  The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital! Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and Bandcamp. Check out IndependentWrestling.tv for the best in current and classic independent pro wrestling, including live events from top independent promotion

So one of America's favorite docs, Dr. Phil, wants to talk about trans inclusion in sports and brought in some voices who are decidedly antagonistic to the discussion. Thankfully, he also called in Pioneer award-winning college basketball Layne Ingram to the fray. With his national television appearance coming up, we beamed up the head women's basketball coach at Lansing Community College (MI), and host of The Reconstructed Man podcast to talk about the debut and the continuation discussions about trans inclusion in sport especially for young people as the issue move forward in recent judicial action and how its making an impact as the 2022 campaign season speeds to Election Day. And coach is gonna brag about his Michigan Wolverines as well.

D.Gil and Outsports Co-founder Cyd Zigler share their experiences at this year's 2022 Burning Man in Black Rock City, Nevada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Happy Saturday! On this week's show, Alex speaks with Mackenzie Dunford, an out bisexual and non-binary Canadian junior football player about how they're trying to make the gridiron a more inclusive place. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Among the hundreds who have told their coming out stories through the power of sports in Outsports was a collegiate Ultimate Frisbee player in 2017 named Jenna Weiner. At the time when a trans woman was making her first step toward her truth and her game, she sought to open the door for other like her to follow, by asking the tough questions of USA Ultimate and then bringing forth suggestions and solutions. Many of her solutions are a major part of her sport's policies now and she and her sport aren't done innovating. This week, Karleigh Webb sits down with Weiner and looks at how its the so-called "fringe" sports that are fast becoming sport equity's "in crowd". Also This Week: Natalie Ryan battles in a wild final round of one of disc golf's elite events Campaign 2022 Update: Gaines on the plains became a pain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Happy Saturday! On this week's show, Alex talks about the NBA giving Anthony Edwards a light punishment for anti-gay language, UMass Football hosting Liberty for its Pride Day and a Wall Street Journal story about why girls are fleeing high school basketball. Is it because women's basketball has the reputation of being a "gay" sport? Follow Alex on Twitter, @AlexReimer1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, Lovelies! This week we welcome "Cannonball" Justine Ward to the show! They and Brian Bell discuss their journey into pro wrestling, learning the ropes during Covid and the personal triumphs Ward has found during their young career in the ring. Ward also chats about their first main event match against their trainer Covey Christ and how their long-distance swimming talents transferred into the ring! Follow Justine Ward on Twitter: @CannonballJW Grab LGBT In The Ring merch on Brainbuster Tees Follow Brian Bell on Twitter: @WonderboyOTM Follow LGBT In The Ring on Twitter: @LGBTRingPod  The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital! Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and Bandcamp. Check out IndependentWrestling.tv for the best in current and classic independent pro wrestling, including live even

This Week we have Aces, Races, Spaces, and a Deep Dive on some different ideas about inclusion. ACES -- How 'bout WNBA Los Vegas Aces. A young team in the image of a go-getter head coach, and why they may be the team to beat for a while. RACES -- We are heading into the fall running season and that means some major races ahead, and two more of the premier marathons have decided to move into the future by offering non-binary divisions for 2023 SPACES -- The state of Virginia is the latest to join the line trying to restrict and prohibit transgender school students from certain spaces, and they may have put forth the most draconian set of policies yet THE DEEP DIVE -- Noted journalist/analyst at intersections of sport, gender, sex and society Maggie Mertens put up an interesting set of views, ideas and prospect for what inclusion could look like on the pages of The Atlantic and some didn't what they read. Karleigh dives inside and looks at what the article said, what it didn't say, and put forth some thought of

Happy Saturday! On this week's show, Alex chats with Sheri Johnson, the CEO of Strong Voices Television, the only LGBTQ-focused streaming service. Alex and Sheri talk about her motivation for starting the network and her desire to broadcast LGBTQ sports to the masses. Alex also talks about Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards' anti-gay social media post, and the muted reaction from the NBA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, Lovelies! Just a few days removed from CasGayDia, we welcome back 1/2 of that show's main event a triple champion Keita to the show! He and Brian Bell discuss how his rise in Without a Cause came to be, his rivalry with PrideStyle anchor Da Shade over the Princex of Pride title and his redeveloping himself into one of the West Coast's most intense and high profile stars. Keita also shares his thoughts on Relentless Wrestling, sharing the ring with Ashton Starr at CasGayDia and why he called out the QWI 200 during his battle with Billy Dixon at Big Gay Brunch Dallas! Follow Keita on Twitter: @KEiTAyourHeart Snag tickets for CasGaydia on Sept. 11 at brainbustertix.com/casgaydia Grab LGBT In The Ring merch on Brainbuster Tees Follow Brian Bell on Twitter: @WonderboyOTM Follow LGBT In The Ring on Twitter: @LGBTRingPod  The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital! Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 6

This week's Trans Sporter Room with Karleigh Webb features two mavericks who set their own mark. Skateboarder Leo Baker: Art Above All. Heading into 2020, Leo Baker was one of the top skateboarders in the world. A 6-time X Games medalist, Baker was selected to the 2020 U.S. Olympic Team for Tokyo. That was before the COVID crisis hit and postponed the games. But a few weeks before, Baker made a different decision. For years, they had pushed up the ranks of the sport from the sidewalks and sky parks to the biggest stages while also dealing with a lot of dysphoria and questioning. In February 2020, Baker decided the being themselves was greater than gold. They came out as transmasculine and non-binary, left Team USA and began pursuing their life. That story is now the subject of a documentary called Stay On Board: The Leo Baker Story. Baker beams up to talk about his path, the decision, and why skateboarding in the wild is greater than skating in grandest stage in sport. Cyclist Molly Cameron: Riot Grrls, Grav

Gay equestrian athlete joins the podcast to give us insight into the equestrian sports world and how he conquers it all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Happy Saturday! To celebrate the start of the NFL season, Alex talks about every gay football fan's favorite topic: hot quarterbacks! He runs down a ranking of the most attractive quarterbacks in the game, and then discusses a study that seeks to answer whether QBs are *actually* the hottest. Follow Alex on Twitter, @AlexReimer1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, Lovelies! We're talking all things Big Gay Brunch this week as Patches Chance (Let The Wrestle) returns to help break down the 5th edition of the queer-focused pro wrestling event. They and Brian Bell discuss Jeyla Jay's return to the North American stage, throwdown featuring Ashton Starr, Sandra Moone, Devon Monroe and Jai Vidal, Parrow demolishing Kidd Bandit and intense fights with Dark Sheik, Max The Impaler and Jordan Blade! Follow Patches Chance on Twitter: @patcheschance Snag tickets for CasGaydia on Sept. 11 at brainbustertix.com/casgaydia Grab LGBT In The Ring merch on Brainbuster Tees Follow Brian Bell on Twitter: @WonderboyOTM Follow LGBT In The Ring on Twitter: @LGBTRingPod  The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital! Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and Bandcamp. Check out