Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Megan Rapinoe Laid Out Exactly Why Anti-Trans Sports Bans Are Cruel
glamour.comTime that the 1972 legislation prohibiting discrimination based on sex in schools hasn’t meant total equity for all student athletes—particularly for transgender young people.While called “transformational” legislation, she also noted that it likely has the same blind spots that exist in society. “I’m sure there’s a racial blind spot.
I’m sure there’s an LGBTQ blind spot. I’m sure there’s an immigrant blind spot, all of that,” she said. “Title IX is also charged with handling sexual assault and rape on college campuses.
We know that that is continuing to be rampant and underreported.”As states across the country propose and pass legislation barring transgender students from school sports, Rapinoe said these laws aren’t about athletics; they’re about people’s lives.“I think people also need to understand that sports is not the most important thing in life, right?
Life is the most important thing in life. And so much of this trans inclusion argument has been put through the extremely tiny lens of elite sports,” she said. “Like that is not the way that we need to be framing this question.
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