Stephen A. Smith expressed his opposition to transgender athletes who participate in female sports while the ESPN star continues to combine speculation on a possible race for his functions.
Donald Trump published a decree on the first day of the second term, confirming that the administration would only recognize two sexes.
The president then announced the ban on transgender athletes in female sports, after years of fury surrounding Lia Thomas and Balaire Fleming.
Smith discussed a possible race for the presidency in 2028 in a recent interview with Dailymail.com. Now he weighed on transgender athletes, arguing that they “lifted women’s rights”.
Lgbtq Rights and all that, I fully support that. But when transgender The athletes, men pass to women and they participate in female sports, it is a different animal for me, “he told Bloomberg.
“It’s not just LGBTQ rights. It is a question of fixing the rights of women all over the world which are born, and they are disadvantaged.
Stephen A. Smith expressed his opposition to transgender athletes in female sports
The swimmer Lia Thomas and the lolar volleyball player Fleming caused controversy
NCAA has changed its policy on transgender athletes following Trump’s decree.
Thomas became the first transgender athlete to win a title in Division 1 of the NCAA in 2022, having participated in the male swimming team of Upenn of 2017 at 20 under the name of Will Thomas.
Balaire Fleming, on the other hand, has contributed to the San Jose state women’s volleyball team, several teams refusing to play Spartans.
The Ministry of Education also recently demanded the transgender athletes of the NCAA band from all the female titles or records which they won after the transition.
“ We cannot cancel the damage inflicted by years of policies and practices that have denied the material reality of sex and confused this immutable characteristic with a subjective and fluid concept of “identity” by prospectively returning to sexual classifications factual objective in athletics ”, the “the lawyer of the department wrote in his letter, obtained exclusively by the daily life.
“But we can recognize the damage caused and the injustices committed by such erroneous policies and the inversion of their effects will restore a real commitment to the equality of the opportunities of girls and women in the sports competition in the United States”, prosecuted the letter.
Trump’s choice for the Chief of Education, Linda McMahon, also said that she opposed the “organic boys” having the chance to compete with the girls.
“ I do not believe that organic boys should be able to compete with girls in sport, and I think now that not only people have spoken, because it was something on which Trump was running, but I think That the court spoke, “said McMahon.
