ESPN star Stephen A. Smith Made his position on Trans -inclusion in Girls and Women’s Sports Clear during an interview on Radio Row in New Orleans for Super Bowl Lix.
Smith appeared in an interview for Bloomberg last week to talk about his political ambitions. The clip was published on Saturday. He said that he considered himself a “centrist” when it came to political tendencies, but when it came to trans -athletes played in the sports sports, there was a different line there.
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Sadie Schreiner has a transgender flag after the third place in the final of the 200m race on the NCAA DIII Outdoor Track and Field Championships on 25 May 2024. (Jahi mwandu / The Washington Post via Getty Images)
“So I look at it. LGBTQ -Rights and all that stuff, I am fully supported by that, but when transgender athletes, men switch to women and they compete with female sports, that is another animal for me,” he said.
“That is not just about LGBTQ -Rights. That is about the news of women everywhere who are born feminine, and they are a definitely disadvantage.”
Smith’s position came as president Donald Trump Signed an executive order to prohibit transgender athletes against women and girls.
Stephen A. Smith on the ESPN NBA Countdown Live Set in Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California, on October 23, 2024. (Kirby Lee-Imagn images)
The NCAA followed the executive order of Trump and changed its policy.
Linda McMahonTrump’s choice for educational secretary, also said that they did not believe that transatletes should compete against women and girls in sport.
“I don’t believe that biological boys should be able to compete against girls in sport, and I think it was certainly not only the people now, because that was something that Trump ran very hard, but I believe that the Court spoke, “said McMahon.
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President Donald Trump signs an executive order that retains female athletes to participate in sporting events for women or girls, in the eastern room of the White House, Wednesday, February 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
A National Exit survey Led by the legislative action committee of the Women for America (CWA), it turned out that 70% of moderate voters saw the issue of “Donald Trump’s opposition to transgender boys and men who played girls and women’s sports and of transgender boys and men and women’s bathrooms, “So important for them. And 6% said it was the most important issue of all, while 44% said it was ‘very important’.
Jackson Thompson from Fox News has contributed to this report.
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