Amazin LeThi - Athlete and Global Advocate for LGBTQ equality in sports

<div>Amazin LêThi was born in Saigon where she was left in an orphanage by her mother. Amazin was then adopted by a white Australian family and became a trans racial adoptee and grew up in Australia. As a young adult, she was homeless for a period of time and it was at this lowest point, contemplating suicide, Amazin realized her passion and love for sport could help her survive. </div> <div> </div> <div>Amazin got into weightlifting as a young age and through this, she gaining physical and mental strength, which in turn helped her with her confidence. Amazin shares more from her personal journey of homelessness and having to fight against all the odds to overcome enormous barriers to become a leading global rainbow (LGBTQ) sports activist and thought leader. </div> <div> </div> <div>Amazin is a former competitive natural bodybuilder, TV/Film star, entertainment executive and the first Vietnamese internationally published health and fitness author. Currently focusing on the sport of shooting with her goal of reaching the Olympics in this sport. </div> <div> </div> <div>Amazin is the first Asian ambassador for Athlete Ally, a nonprofit dedicated to champion LGBTQI+ equality, and Stonewall U.K., Europe’s largest LGBTQ charity. Her own <a href= "http://www.amazinlethifoundation.org/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener" data-saferedirecturl= "https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.amazinlethifoundation.org/&source=gmail&ust=1599025111940000&usg=AFQjCNEoZPnrLUYikB-fF1vpp5tWgScHcQ">Amazin LeThi Foundation </a>uses sports to develop leadership skills for “rainbow youth” and advocates for LGBTQ allyship in the athletic community.</div> <div> </div> <div>Amazin in her own words:</div> <div> </div> <div>Sport has always been part of my life but I never saw myself in sports, let alone as an LGBTQ athlete, which made me feel very alone and isolated. I never felt I could ever be out because I was always bullied as that one Asian person in sport.</div> <div> </div> <div>Sport should be welcoming to everyone and no one should feel