Former USWNT -star Megan Rapinoe Focused on the executive command of President Donald Trump and transgender athletes forbid effectively from girls and women’s sports and called the act ‘cruel and corrupt’.
In a recent interview published in the Mundial Magazine, Rapinoe focused on the rhetoric of Trump around Transmensen, in particular athletes.
Megan Rapinoe, #15 of Team United States, Lines prior to the women’s football group G match between the United States and Australia during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in Kashima Stadium on July 27, 2021 in Kashima, Japan. (Hector Vivas – FIFA/FIFA via Getty images)
The interview was conducted the day after Trump the “Keep men from the sports sports” Executive last month.
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“Don’t tell me it’s about the rights of women’s sports,” Said Rapinoe. “That is completely unfair to say that. I just think it’s very cruel. If you withdraw it all, it is just a bit cruel and corrupt. This is no problem, and you will not be able to order trans -people from existence.”
“We just went through a very long period for ten years really needed to fight to only get a baseline of, such as equal rights and non-discriminatory behavior, and when people stop only I think we are at that time.”
The executive order requires entities that federal financing to adapt to Title IX, which the Trump government changed last month to recognize protection on the basis of organic sex – to rewrite the rewriting of former President Joe Biden 2024.
President Donald Trump, accompanied by female athletes, signs the executive order “No Men in Women’s Sports” in the East Room in the White House on February 5, 2025 in Washington, DC (Andrew Harnik/Getty images)
Rapinoe, one of Trump’s most outspoken critics, said in November that she was anxious for the trans community that followed Trump’s election victory.
“I feel overwhelmed by the reality that a Trump presidency is going to be, that we have seen before – so I don’t feel that I am saying something new – but the reality where every day can happen as something crazy. I think that is really overwhelming,” said Rapinoe on her podcast at the time, “a touch more.”
“I think I feel – not so much personally scared, because I think we live in very progressive places, we are incredibly privileged in our place in the world and life and financially and all these things, but I think fear extends to only people in general who will really be struck,” she went on. I am thinking of all my trans friends and people I know and trans -children. I am thinking of the potential of massive deportations if that will happen, and just like the general chaos that is sown is really overwhelming. “
Ol rules Megan Rapinoe, #15, talk to the media after the NWSL Championship match of 2023 against New Jersey/New York Gotham FC in Snapdragon Stadium. (Orlando Ramirez-usa Today Sports)
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Rapinoe’s interview On Monday ended with the insistence of other athletes to use their platforms to speak out.
“There are so many ways in which we can grow and codify a kind of lasting change,” she said. “And I always encourage players to be involved and use their voice. Players are actually always the most powerful people in sport.”
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