This Is Amazing! Did You Ever Think…

Did you ever think there would be a Pride night at a major sporting event? Did you would hear a trans person sign the national anthem at a major league baseball game?
From Homeless to the High Notes, and Now a Home Run

Opera singer Breanna Sinclairé becomes the first transgender woman to sing the national anthem at a professional sporting event. 
Out
By Brian Schaffer
June 17, 2015


Breanna Sinclairé is not much of a sports fan but tonight she’s attending her first Oakland A’s game, and, at least at the beginning, all eyes will be on her. Sinclairé, a San Francisco-based opera singer, will ring in the game by singing the "Star-Spangled Banner" in her powerful soprano, becoming the first transgender woman to sing the national anthem at a professional sporting event, according to the singer. “We wanted to promote the theme of inclusion throughout the night, and the anthem is an important part of that,” the team told Out in a statement.

“It’s nerve-wracking,” Sinclairé admits, noting that it is by far the largest crowd she has performed in front of — not even counting the vast TV audience. “But I love what I do and I’ve been trained to do this. It’s a blessing.” The honor is also something of a peak ascent for the 25-year-old, who has traversed a number of dark valleys on her journey to becoming a professional singer.

Did you catch the other facet of this story? That she is also an opera singer. In an article on Breitbart Sports about her it says,

Sinclairé, a classically-trained opera singer, took to the mound at Oakland’s O.co Coliseum to belt out the Star-Spangled Banner before the A’s faced off against the San Diego Padres in the first game of a two game series.

“It means a lot. I feel very honored,” Sinclairé told the Associated Press of the experience. “I used to be homeless in New York City. I think from being homeless to getting my bachelor’s degree and my master’s degree to this, it’s just kind of mesmerizing to me to have such a group of people that support me and love me and want to see me succeed. I’m so thankful for them.”

As more trans people make the news we are finding so many amazing people are transgender. The unsung heroes who transition and then move on with their lives, the engineers, the servicemembers, the carpenters and so many more trans people who are not in the spotlight but are just being themselves. Yes, there still are way too many who are being discriminated and we must work to make sure that they can succeed in life.



This afternoon I am giving training at a state agency so that they can have better idea what we are facing every day.