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AEW: 3 reasons why Nyla Rose should beat Riho for the title on Dynamite

By Sam Gladen

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 2: Nyla Rose, in black, a transgender woman, competes against female wrester Riho, in white, in the All Elite Wrestling Womens World Championship at the Capitol One Arena in Washington, D.C., October 2, 2019. Rose fights a cis-gender woman. At the end Riho defeated Rose. (Astrid Riecken For The Washington Post via Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 2: Nyla Rose, in black, a transgender woman, competes against female wrester Riho, in white, in the All Elite Wrestling Womens World Championship at the Capitol One Arena in Washington, D.C., October 2, 2019. Rose fights a cis-gender woman. At the end Riho defeated Rose. (Astrid Riecken For The Washington Post via Getty Images) /
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BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA – JULY 24: Cody Rhodes and Nyla Rose of “All Elite Wrestling” speak during the TNT & TBS segment of the Summer 2019 Television Critics Association Press Tour 2019 at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on July 24, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images) /

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All Elite Wrestling is hesitant to comment on Nyla’s past, quite possibly because it’s not any of our business, and they are right to feel that way because it’s not. She is a very talented and imposing competitor. That’s all the tv program should focus on. In a perfect world, Nyla being featured prominently on TNT should not be a big deal, women are shown on television all the time.

But we don’t and it is, Highlighting the fact that Nyla Rose is the first transgender performer signed to a major wrestling company in the United States is a major step for the progression of LGBT+ rights in the United States and the normalization of LGBT+ voices in our homes and media sources.

Putting the title on Nyla sends the message around the world that AEW stands for something bigger than wrestling. That AEW, as well as the wrestling world, is home for the misfits and the weirdos, the ones who don’t fit in and feel that they don’t belong.

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That wrestling is a safe place to be yourself; be open and authentically you. It proves that storylines reflecting our lives in the media that we frequent will not be boiled down to a half-assed wedding interruption any longer.

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