High School student Seth Knop became the first transgender student to join the school’s football team this month. And while that’s headline-inducing to begin with, the acceptance of his teammates and the community is even more so.
“The kids in my grade respect me a lot for it,” Knop told the school’s newspaper. “They treat me like everybody else, which is what I wanted. [A fellow player] came up to me the other day and told me he had a lot of respect for what I did. I just told him I was doing what I love.”
Several teammates have called Knop a role model for “going against social norms.”
