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23-04-2025
- Politics
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Super Bowl champ Donald Driver shares his stance on trans athletes in girls', women's sports
Former Green Bay Packers star Donald Driver offered his stance on transgender athletes in girls' and women's sports. Driver talked to Fox News Digital about coaching his own children in sports and shared his thoughts about transgender athletes. "I think, you know, God made you how he made you," Driver said. "And I think, at the end of the day, if he made you a male, then you compete in male sports. He made you a female, you compete in female sports. I think, at the end of the day, you can't compete at that level. "Girls are sometimes faster than guys, guys are sometimes faster than girls. Sometimes guys are stronger, sometimes girls are not. So, I think, at the end of the day, that's how God made you, so you have to compete in the sport that God made you in. So that's where I see fit in that, knowing that I have girls and boys. You have to be very open-minded to the situation, but you also have to understand that you have to be very transparent in the conversation. For me, I think if God made you a certain way, then that's the sport you compete in." The issue of transgender athletes in girls' and women's sports was a main talking point of President Donald Trump's re-election campaign in 2024. He took a clear stance on keeping biological males from girls' and women's sports. Trump recently signed an executive order to prohibit transgender athletes in girls' and women's sports, which sparked legal battles between his administration and several states. A New York Times/Ipsos Survey released in January showed that the vast majority of Americans, including a majority of Democrats, don't think transgender athletes should be permitted to compete in women's sports. Of the 2,128 people polled, 79% said biological males who identify as women should not be allowed to participate in women's sports. Of the 1,025 people who identified as Democrats or leaning Democrat, 67% said transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete with women. Among 1,022 Republicans, that number was 94%. Follow Fox News Digital's sports coverage on X and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.
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22-04-2025
- Politics
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Ex-ESPN star shares stance on transgender athletes in girls' and women's sports
Former ESPN star Jeannine Edwards made her stance on transgender athletes competing in girls' and women's sports clear in an interview on Tuesday. Edwards appeared on OutKick's "Don't @ Me with Dan Dakich" and said she couldn't believe there was a debate about the issue in sports. "I cannot believe that we have even gotten to this point," Edwards said. "I mean 50 years of Title IX and all those decades of working up to that and getting to that point where women could have equal access, equal opportunity, equal benefits, but they need to be in their own niche. Because let's face it, men have 60% more muscle mass, they've got a heck of a lot more bone density and bone mass, larger lung capacity, larger oxygen consumption capacity. It doesn't matter whether you are taking hormones or not. "It doesn't matter whether you say you identify as a female, I'm sorry your physiology of your body as a man is much different than that of the body of a woman. So, to me, this a no-brainer and I don't understand why some people on the left think that is a cause that is going to be a winner for them just as I don't believe that this immigration issue and deporting these criminal aliens, I don't think that's a winning issue for them either." The New Jersey native was an ESPN and ABC Sports broadcaster from the mid-1990s to the mid-2010s. A New York Times/Ipsos Survey released in January showed that the vast majority of Americans, including a majority of Democrats, don't think transgender athletes should be permitted to compete in women's sports. Of the 2,128 people polled, 79% said biological males who identify as women should not be allowed to participate in women's sports. Of the 1,025 people who identified as Democrats or leaning Democratic, 67% said transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete with women. Among 1,022 Republicans, that number was 94%. Follow Fox News Digital's sports coverage on X and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.
