{"id":139498,"date":"2025-09-13T05:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T05:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/139498\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T05:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T05:57:08","slug":"team-usa-issues-blunt-response-to-transgender-cyclists-celebrations-over-charlie-kirk-assassination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/139498\/","title":{"rendered":"Team USA issues blunt response to transgender cyclist’s celebrations over Charlie Kirk assassination"},"content":{"rendered":"

Team USA<\/a> has responded to an American transgender<\/a> BMX cyclist who shared a series of social media posts celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kirk, a conservative activist and close ally of Donald Trump<\/a>, was shot and killed while hosting a Q&A event with students at Utah<\/a>\u00a0Valley University on Wednesday. The police now have a suspect, Tyler Robinson, in custody.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old had been debating the issue of mass shootings<\/a> involving transgender people with a student in the moment before he was shot dead, sending shockwaves across the globe.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Despite many sporting figures condemning the murder, Chelsea<\/a> Wolfe, who featured as an alternate on the USA’s women’s BMX team at the Tokyo Olympics<\/a>\u00a0in 2021, openly welcomed the assassination.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Team USA issued a response to Wolfe’s sickening posts on Friday afternoon. They said: ‘The views of current and former national team athletes are their own and do not reflect those of USA Cycling.<\/p>\n

‘Chelsea Wolfe has not been a member of the USA Cycling National Team or a member of USA Cycling since 2023.’<\/p>\n

\"American <\/p>\n

American transgender BMX cyclist Chelsea Wolfe celebrated Charlie Kirk’s murder this week<\/p>\n

\"Kirk, <\/p>\n

Kirk, a conservative activist, was shot and killed\u00a0at Utah Valley University on Wednesday<\/p>\n

Biological male Wolfe’s personal\u00a0Instagram story<\/a>\u00a0was littered with celebratory posts in the wake of Kirk’s death.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One of the posts, which has since expired, featured a report from USA Today on the horrific murder, with an animated caption of children’s cartoon character ‘Dora the Explorer,’ according to Fox News<\/a>. Above it read: ‘We did it!.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

In another, Wolfe shared a selfie giving a thumbs up with a caption that read:\u00a0‘Being a Nazi is completely optional btw. He didn’t have to do all that, but he did and now he’s dead. Don’t live your life in a way that the world is better following your death.’<\/p>\n

Wolfe likened Kirk to a Nazi yet again in a separate story, adding: ‘We hate Nazis because they want us dead.’<\/p>\n

Among the slew of posts cheering Kirk’s death, Wolfe reshared a message that read: ‘He wasn’t just a “conservative we disagreed with.” He was a fascist organizer who built his career spreading racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia, xenophobia, and anti-immigrant hate, actively harming marginalized communities every single day.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘If you feel compelled to send his family condolences, fine, that’s your personal choice. But don’t turn around and scold others for refusing to shed tears over a man who dedicated his life to dehumanizing and endangering them. This doesn’t make you a “better person,” and if you’re a Christian, it doesn’t make you closer to going to heaven.’<\/p>\n

As an alternate at the Tokyo games, Wolfe became the first openly transgender athlete to qualify for the Olympics for the United States.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wolfe had already undergone a gender transition before competing in BMX as an amatuer in 2014.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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As an alternate at the Tokyo games, Wolfe became the first openly transgender athlete to qualify for the United States Olympic team\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Kirk <\/p>\n

Kirk is pictured speaking to students in Utah moments before he was shot in the neck<\/p>\n

However, Wolfe’s BMX freestyle career was effectively ended in 2023 when the Union Cycliste Internationale – cycling’s international governing body – implemented new regulations banning transgender athletes from participating in women’s competition.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The cyclist previously spoke in a March 2020\u00a0Facebook post of hopes to ‘burn the American flag’ at the Tokyo Olympics.<\/p>\n

‘My goal is to win the Olympics so I can burn a US flag on the podium. This is what they focus on during a pandemic. Hurting trans children,’ Wolfe wrote at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wolfe’s public celebration of Kirk’s death this week disgusted many social media users, including tennis legend Martina Navratilova, who slammed the ‘sickening’ posts.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kirk’s alleged assassin Tyler Robinson made chilling remarks about the conservative commentator during a family dinner in the lead-up to his murder, Daily Mail reported earlier on Friday.<\/a><\/p>\n

Robinson, 22, brought up Kirk’s visit to Utah Valley University on September 10 and spoke of his dislike for the 31-year-old MAGA influencer, family members told investigators.<\/p>\n

‘They talked about why they didn’t like him and the viewpoints that he had,’ Utah governor Spencer Cox revealed in a press conference this morning.<\/p>\n

The family members also told police Robinson had described Kirk as ‘full of hate and spreading hate’.<\/p>\n

Robinson’s comments raised a red flag among his family – so much so that they told police about the conversation following his arrest for Kirk’s murder.<\/p>\n

\"Wolfe, <\/p>\n

Wolfe, pictured with partner in 2024,\u00a0became the first openly transgender athlete to qualify for the Olympics for the United States back in 2021 at the Tokyo games\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Kirk, <\/p>\n

Kirk, a close ally of Trump, was fatally shot at a Q&A event at Utah Valley University this week<\/p>\n

It was Robinson’s father who ultimately turned his son into law enforcement.<\/p>\n

Sources told the Daily Mail that Robinson confessed to his father, Matt Robinson, who owns and operates a construction company.<\/p>\n

Matt had recognized his son in photos shared by the FBI and confronted him about the shooting.<\/p>\n

When Robinson confessed, his dad urged him to turn himself in.<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old reportedly told his dad that he would rather kill himself than turn himself in, but was persuaded to speak with a local youth minister, who also works with the US Marshals Service.<\/p>\n

Cox said Friday that a family member of Robinson’s ‘reached out to a family friend, who contacted the Washington County Sheriff’s Office with information that Robinson had confessed to them or implied that he had committed the incident’.<\/p>\n

He was taken into custody Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Robinson’s family members told police the 22-year-old had become ‘more political in recent years’, Cox said.<\/p>\n

\"Kirk <\/p>\n

Kirk leaves behind his wife, Erika Frantzve, and a son, 16 months, and a daughter, three<\/p>\n

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Tyler Robinson seen in his mugshot following his arrest over the shooting of Charlie Kirk\u00a0<\/p>\n

They also confirmed Robinson had a grey Dodge Challenger – matching the description of the suspect’s vehicle.<\/p>\n

Robinson’s roommate also directed officers to the suspect’s Discord platform.<\/p>\n

The roommate said Robinson had messaged him asking to retrieve his rifle, wrapped in a towel in some bushes, Cox said.<\/p>\n

Robinson now faces charges of aggravated murder, felony discharge of a firearm causing serious bodily injury, and obstruction of justice, according to a probable cause affidavit.<\/p>\n

Cox said prosecutors will pursue the death penalty if he is convicted.<\/p>\n

The motive for the assassination remains unclear.<\/p>\n

For more on this story – follow Daily Mail podcast ‘The Assassination of Charlie Kirk,’ out now wherever you get your podcasts or on YouTube.\u00a0<\/p>\n