Lendale Johnson, the United States' first Black and gay professional tennis player, is navigating her identity as a transgender woman while giving back to the community. She starred in a reality show, Deuces and Love, and now focuses on providing tennis clinics for underrepresented groups. Johnson emphasizes the importance of self-acceptance and shows pride in her journey through challenges faced as a double minority in professional tennis, where she also encounters systemic barriers related to race and gender.
"People are either going to support you or not, so you need to know what your journey is, and whatever you need to do to make yourself feel comfortable, you need to do that as long as you're not hurting anyone."
"I really felt that it was important to show my story just because of me being a double minority. There isn't really anyone out there right now [publicly] going through what I'm going through."
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