NFL Hall of Famer Brett Favre made his position clear on a bill pushed through Congress that would ban transgender athletes from women’s and girls’ sports.
Favre posted on X Friday, re-sharing a Fox News interview with Sage Steele and Riley Gaines in which he interviewed Sen. Tommy TubervilleR-Ala., for introducing the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act in an effort to keep transgender athletes out of women’s sports nationwide.
“Good for those officials trying to solve this. There is a clear biological difference between men and women,” Favre said in his caption for the video.
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Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre testifies before the House Ways and Means Committee at the Longworth House Office Building on September 24, 2024 in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Tuberville’s measure would stand which addresses Title IX gender is “recognized solely on the basis of a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth” and does not modify this to apply to gender identity. It would ban federal funding of athletic programs that allow biological males to participate in women’s and girls’ sports.
This would apply to biological men and boys who identify as transgender and try to participate in events and competitions for women and girls.
The measure is co-sponsored by 23 Republican senators.
This is not the first time Favre has weighed in on the issue of transgender athletes in women’s sports. The former NFL quarterback spoke out against New Zealand transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard, who became the first transgender woman to qualify for the 2021 Olympics.
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Laurel Hubbard of New Zealand waves after a surge in women’s weightlifting at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Aug. 2, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
Hubbard competed in men’s events before coming out as transgender in 2013.
“It’s a man competing as a woman,” Favre said at the time on an episode of his podcast, which is now out of print. “That’s unfair. It’s not fair to a man, even if that person wants to be a woman or feels forced to be. If you want to be the opposite sex, that’s fine. I have no problem with it. But you can’t compete with…men cannot compete with women.
“If I was a real woman – I can’t believe I’m saying that – and I competed in weightlifting and lost to this person, I would be beside myself.”
In that podcast episode, Favre also spoke out against transgender BMX rider Chelsea Wolfe, who was selected as an alternate for Team USA’s BMX freestyle event. Wolfe was accused of talking about burning an American flag on the medal podium in a social media post. Fox News Digitally reported earlier.
Favre said Wolfe should not participate.
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“I wouldn’t want her to compete in my Olympics. Go compete for someone else,” Favre said. “To say this is a slap in the face of our country. I can’t believe this person is allowed to compete for our country.
“She should be banned.”
Favre has previously worked with members of the LGBTQ community, including gay former NFL player Esera Tuaolo. Favre appeared on Tuaolo’s podcast in 2020 to discuss head trauma from football.
However, Favre was also accused by some of exhibiting anti-transgender behavior at the 2015 ESPY Awards. During the show, Caitlyn Jenner took the stage to accept the Arthur Ashe Award for Courage, and Favre was seen slowly clapping. The nature of Favre’s slow blow drew responses from some with pro-LGBTQ beliefs on social media.
But polls today show that a majority of Americans oppose the inclusion of transgender people in women’s sports, which has been a key campaign issue for Donald Trump and other Republicans in the recent cycle.
Former NFL player Brett Favre speaks on stage at SiriusXM during Super Bowl LIV on January 31, 2020 in Miami, Florida. (Cindy Ord/Getty Images for SiriusXM)
Nearly 70% of Americans believe biological males should not participate in women’s sports Gallup poll last year.
A survey in June conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago asked respondents to share their opinions on whether transgender athletes of both genders should be allowed to compete in sports competitions that correspond with their preferred gender identity rather than their biological sex.
Sixty-five percent responded that this should never or rarely be allowed. When respondents were asked specifically about adult transgender female athletes competing in women’s sports, 69% were against it.
A national exit poll Research from the legislative action committee Concerned Women for America (CWA) found that 70% of moderate voters saw the issue as “Donald Trump’s opposition to transgender boys and men playing girls’ and women’s sports and transgender boys and men playing girls’ and women’s sports.” use women’s toilets. ” just as important to them.
And 6% said it was the most important issue of all, while 44% said it was “very important.”
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